Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelist selected Sherry for the job after reading his 1971 book on Joseph Conrad, Conrad's Western World. Greene was taken with the scholar's unbiased approach and willingness to travel to the remote and hazardous regions that inspired the author of The Heart of Darkness. And indeed, Sherry makes a fuss about his field investigations for this book: "Risking disease and death as he had done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery...
...term-time job was portent for post-graduate life; when Harvard is reduced to a memory, we have to pick and choose what remains of its meaning. Most Harvard students, when asked where we go to school, reply Boston first, then Cambridge if coaxed, and only under extreme pressure do we say Harvard. Upon graduation, are we going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston...
...Watson, the GSD's assistant dean for academic administration. As he put it in a recent interview, "I don't just see my position here at Harvard as just a job--it's a commitment." Watson's longstanding professional commitment to diversity in hiring is the extension of his personal commitment to achieving success while affirming his own difference...
...what have students gained if their education was solely derived from friends, roommates or clubs. They could get the same experience from a new job and home, any other college or any good summer camp. Why go to Harvard and waste money, if all you seek is social experience...
...grounded and in which myresponsibilities cover that scope. I try to becareful not to extend my reach where I'm notwelcome or where it's not really part of my rolebecause one can tend to do damage there. One ofthe things that I explored when I was looking atthis job was just what exactly is this role, whatare the issues. I will not be afraid to speak upif I have ideas that I think would be useful...