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...confident that most members of the Harvard community share my belief that nothing is more important than our intellectual mission and the free exchange of ideas. I think that it is enormously valuable to this intellectual mission that we have a true scholar leading our academic community. I find it remarkable that our president is one of the most intellectually-engaged people that I have ever known, and I think that Harvard’s eminence in the world of ideas is greatly strengthened by having this kind of leadership...
...Comparatively, BC is the poorest of those 30 schools but, consistent with our mission, we have worked hard to assure access to a BC education to those capable students with demonstrated need,” said Dunn...
This is an unrealistic goal. But it is a noble one, worth pursuing in the name of the University’s true educational mission. The “recruiting process” whereby companies impose their will on campus life and suck students away from their classes, encourages an anti-intellectual attitude. What’s worse, it renders those who participate in it completely dull at cocktail parties. Forget about being a corporate whore—how about being a corporate bore...
...Pasternack, who lethargically, but lovingly, leads Present!’s meetings in the Art Space, the group’s openness to new ideas and people is central to its mission. “We don’t want to be cloistered, and we don’t want to be at all cut off from other parts of Harvard. We always want to welcome other people,” he says...
...break into the non-profit world since he left his position at BankBoston in 2000. He had been working as a risk management consultant for the past several years, and when Harvard Hillel offered him a position, he jumped at “the opportunity to work for a mission-driven organization which is doing some good in the world...