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...Century's Greatest" are all the rage these days, but yesterday we celebrated truly the greatest man of our century: November 30 was the birthday of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, born one hundred twenty-five years ago in 1874. A celebration on these pages might rightly emphasize Churchill's life in the last century if we want to appreciate fully and learn from his greatness in our century...
These interesting scenes from Churchill's young life all occurred in the nineteenth century, but they prepared him for what would come in the twentieth century, beginning with his first election to Parliament in 1900. Churchill's service in the Cabinet before World War I, his return to the front in 1916, and his inter-war successes and failures are well known and easily discovered. Of course, even better known is Churchill's and Britain's lonely fight against Germany for two long years in World War II. But it is especially worthwhile that the readers of a college newspaper...
Greatness can inspire others, but greatness by its nature is usually too grand to affect the normal course of life. One may marvel at Churchill's greatness in World War II, but its scale is too magnificent to provide daily guidance. Instead, one must look to the greatness, large and small, that he displayed throughout his life. Many Harvard students, like Churchill, have boundless and justifiable ambition. As they prepare for their lives, they should be mindful that greatness, as Churchill shows, comes not from any particular deed, but from one's life itself. Hence, the reason to celebrate Churchill...
...work," Olmsted said, noting that the secretary is expected to live in the Boston area and write class notes for Harvard Magazine, the alumni publication sent to all graduates in the U.S., for the rest of her life. "But it's definitely worth...
...wasn't the sight of his bodily injury that shocked me. It was the fact that he was directing rescuers to another individual trapped in the mass of wood beneath him, thinking of the life of another student in the midst of excruciating pain...