Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard seems to have no intention of letting parents down who are already under the suspicion that their children lead a special privileged life here. They think we have no concerns or worries. Harvard appears to be an ideal world where so many people care about you that it is just like being at home with your parents. Surely they will not be disappointed in these couple of days, for the fooling process has already begun. Big events and snazzy teas are planned. And professors who hardly come out of their offices to greet students (they have more important things...
According to Ray Traietti, a staff assistant for the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex, the coffee house is ideal for amateur performers...
More generally, an academic sees the University from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. The ideal type of scholar recognizes the centrality of teaching and learning in the University. The ideal Corporation member sees Harvard from this angle. We need to stop the rend of universities being run as businesses rather than as academic Institutions, the last bastion of a liberal arts education in this country. The scholar values learning for learning's sake, a goal which should be synonymous with the mission of the University...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...
YOUR ARTICLE ILLUSTRATED A MAJOR problem in the way we select the American President. Many voters tend to concentrate on a single issue and choose for office a candidate who embodies that lone ideal. However, the President has many roles to play, and when a candidate is selected because he embraces a certain policy, he can disappoint the public on other, less prominent policies. Single-issue voters are often surprised by the direction things take after they vote a President into office, when they learn his entire agenda. JOSEPH ROTUNDA San Antonio, Texas Via E-mail...