Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students can explain anything from the Kantian moral imperative to the Gram-Schmidt reduction of linear algebra with the fluency of a matriarch's Yiddish and the passion reserved for TV evangelists. But ask them what they want to do after graduation and responses stall and stutter...
...spoke on panels, she spoke at ceremonies, she posed for a brochure about female superstars at Harvard. Meanwhile, most of us just lost interest. To this day, many hail Rawlins as a hard-working visionary. She might have been that. But in trying to turn the council into the moral conscience of the campus, she estranged moderates and conservatives. When, in the fall of 1997, she launched an aggressive effort to recruit minorities and women to serve as representatives--as if there are so many barriers to entry--the backlash had already begun...
Dartboard still does not understand the big deal about wiring the rooms into cable. It's not a logistical problem, as the University showed when it hooked us all up to the Internet. It's also not a moral problem, since the Web has a lot more lewd and inappropriate material than a basic cable package. And don't even humor dartboard by saying it's a monetary problem, because we can think of at least 13 million reasons why that's not true...
...panel walked away with anything, it should have been that seemingly fundamental definition and the will to share it with others. Thirty years ago, you might have been hard-pressed to put six people--three liberals and three conservatives--on a public platform and reach such a moral and political conclusion...
...13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...