Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women might look back and wonder if the institution they served so well, and which will even then be served well by younger editions of themselves, might not have been served differently. They might wonder if the demands of the institution might not have allowed some room for human considerations; they might wonder if the imperatives of imagined greatness, of dealing rationally and efficiently with a vicious world, precluded so completely a concern for the lives and feelings of those who were not great. If they are truly human, they will consider these matters in 30 years; if they...
...where there are none, all too simple. The fact that many students of professional ethics are left to assume the basic moral principles of the world, leaves them the freedom to assume that they do not exist at all. "The ethics of the situation" obscure the morality of the human condition; living for the moment, for the immediate context, the professional men and women who emerge from Harvard need not always see that there are other contexts where their actions may be judged, and found lacking...
Harvard has tried to teach me otherwise, but it has not succeeded. I still believe that a sliding scale of ethical values can only slide so far before it runs into unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer, that people who are forced to live under despotic governments cannot enjoy even the most basic human liberties. But Harvard, for all its professed concern with proper behavior, does not act as if it recognizes these facts. Tied up in professional ethics, it ignores human ethics...
...their sundry other deans and counsels and vice presidents must recognize these distinctions, for they are intelligent people. But they ignore them; they have found it too easy to merge themselves with the great immortal institution they work for, to forget the most basic part of their humanity, which is their own mortality, and that of those around them. That is why, when they see opposition, they immediately view it as a threat to order, never thinking it might be an appeal to simple human virtue. They are sadly convinced that they can serve the institution only by taking...
...evacuation forced students in Biology 15, "Cell Biology," and Psychology and Social Relations 1060, "Motivation and Action," and 1705, "Psychology of the Human Life Cycle," to leave the Science Center about 30 minutes before the scheduled completion of their exams. Afternoon tests were relocated...