Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What if all of the questions had benefited from similar input? One question, in particular, grated: "Have I ever gone to my House Master about a serious personal difficulty?" Come on, I've only shaken his hand once. On a more technical level, does that mean my House master should get a "5" for unhelpfulness, or a "non-applicable" since I've never approached...
...There are no questions about time commitment or level of involvement with extracurriculars and academic work. Since lack of time is an endemic Harvard disease, how can you omit this aspect of our undergraduate experience from a survey that purports to examine "college life"? There are questions ad nauseum about house life, house community, house committees and house masters. But if no substantial house life actually exists, then the survey's questions won't be worth a farthing. In the survey, I put my extracurriculars at the top of my list of "meaningful" Harvard experiences...
When Weld recently urged U.S. Attorneys to get tougher on corruption, he ran into cynical replies. Says a Justice official: "Their reaction was to laugh and say, 'What about your boss? Why don't you start at the Attorney General level...
...adds that this personal approach to history can have its failings. "Sometimes this is a problem because people, even at this sophisticated level, want something from history, and there may still be a kind of need to gain a sense of pride from our history," he says...
...comments from the bench, Garrity apparently disagreed with the sentiment behind the jury verdict, saying, "Harvard and its supervisors [did] their level best to assist the plaintiff through a very difficult period in her life...