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...last week’s untimely coup can take solace in the fact that Harvard is more funhouse and less emblem of American society. The resignation is an incident so preposterous, so exceptional that there are no big lessons to be gleaned. Rather, there are only circumspect, spurious lessons??lessons not in the sense that they are morals to live by, but in the sense that they gesture toward the University’s sacred cows, to which a president must pay unabated homage if he hopes to achieve anything.The central lesson of this sordid story is that...
...occasional eccentricity: Spare Change Man (“Sir? Girl. Girl you’re lookin’ lovely this evenin’!”), the speed-chess players, and the phony beggars with their signs (“Family killed by Ninjas; need money for Kung Fu lessons??).It would be easy to think this is a big problem. The Phillips Brooks House Association thinks students should all get more involved, stating among its primary objectives the “[promotion of] social awareness and community involvement at Harvard and beyond...
With incidents this familiar and prose so simplistic, it’s hard to mock this book—I have plenty of friends who would be happy and satisfied with its lessons??so, if this is helpful, God be with...
Speaking against the post–Vietnam backdrop of Soviet–American détente, the Russian author must have sounded hopelessly atavistic. The “lessons?? of Vietnam were supposed to have humbled Cold Warriors and made them repentant for championing a policy of vigilant anti–Communism. Yet here was Solzhenitsyn defending not only the essential justness of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but also rebuking the West for not doing more to meet the Communist challenge and stop “the forces of Evil.” As Harvard Law School...
...breaking his nose with a baseball. Lewis learned the hard way that a man’s life is a battle and that he has to constantly “go to war” to win. And while his method of learning may have been unorthodox, the actual lessons??don’t be a girl, suck it up, and act tough—are unfortunately as American as apple...