Word: laud
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Many on this campus would no doubt laud both the University's taste in Commencement speakers and its writing program. They perceive the project of multiculturalism as a righteous crusade to break the grip of white patriarchy on our educational institutions. They deride their opponents as close-minded bigots, but in truth it is they who are close-minded...
...Ripken were a basketball player, he would never take the last shot. TV commentators would laud him for how his pick freed the guy who did take the last shot, but he would never take the risk himself. Success or failure would ultimately be placed on someone else's shoulders...
...freedom in South Africa, which were so costly to many South Africans, were also supported by a number of students, faculty and employees at Harvard, who engaged in our own struggle with the institution's desire not to be involved. It is too easy now for officials to laud President Mandela as a "royal" leader whose dedicated struggles led to his peoples freedom. We in the U.S. had a real role in supporting the South African racist regime, and Harvard should own up to that. SUSAN C. EATON '79- '80 Sept...
Commissioning focus groups and rallying broad-based support through inter-university coordination, Rowe developed the Science Coalition, an alliance that promotes federal funding on basic science research. Founding the Coalition was an accomplishment colleagues across the country laud...
...laud Dean Lewis for vetoing the bill the Undergraduate Council passed. The bill sought to leave women's diplomas in basically the same format as prior to 1977, when Harvard became officially co-educational. It failed to recognize the fact that Radcliffe is no longer a college in any real sense. While the bill was based in valuable affection for Radcliffe's history and integral continued support of women's issues at Harvard, it ignored the fact that women are only channeled through Radcliffe because they are female. The bill supported the idea of "separate but equal"--something...