Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This structural problem--what Buell has calledthe hourglass shape of the job market inacademia--has squeezed the opportunities at alluniversities, meaning that Harvard is competingwith them for young, talented professors.
"The title 'Dean of Students' has never had thesame meaning here that it has had in otherplaces," Lewis says in February.
"The idea of honors had been drained of any real meaning," he said.
Recently, I found myself searching for the meaning of the Harvard education. What had my parents paid their hard earned $120,000 for besides the privilege of displaying the Harvard license frame (my father had eschewed the bumper sticker) on their cars?
I looked for answers among the novels and poems I have read and discussed over the past few years; works filled with angst-ridden protagonists of privileged education, disillusioned but well-meaning idealists in search of greater Truth and Beauty. Were we like Quentin Compson, confused, disenchanted rowers ultimately propelled...