Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many things were running through my head amid the cheers and champagne in the newsroom. I remembered my first visit to The Crimson, where John Trainer and Y. Tarek Farouki, the sports editors at the time, pitched the idea of comping sports to me. I remembered my first game story--a field hockey story for which I was so nervous that I prepared a detailed list of 20 (!) questions for Harvard coach Sue Caples. (I didn't even know the rules of field hockey.) I remembered my wonder and amazement as I became an executive for the first time...
...Being the only vice-presidential candidate officially endorsed by the Crimson left the idea in people's minds that I was a good choice," Price said...
...sympathetic doctor agrees to sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works are its Bible. Through the doctor, Gregoire learns the rules underlying the smooth facade of verbal exchanges. "Be witty, sharp and malicious," is the basic idea, but he must never laugh at his own jokes. A good jab can make him the talk of the court, but unfortunately, so can a bad one. We see the doctor agonizing the next day about a comeback that he had jumbled the night before...
Having an honor code does not mean that people who were previously inclined to cheat will not; what it means instead is that whether to live morally becomes a choice; a sense of responsibility is incurred--both to oneself and to others; and the idea triumphs that we should do what we know or think is right because it's right and not because we have to. There will be few proctors in the real world; therefore, moral choices must ultimately come from within...
Should Harvard forever abandon the idea of instituting an honor code? Rudenstine admitted he didn't know. He added that we would have to take Harvard's temperature--of faculty and students alike--to see if an honor code could work. I would like to think Harvard could handle it, that Harvard students could maintain the honor their signatures imply. But maybe that will have to wait another 360 years...