Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slichter, who chaired the CCSR for morethan a decade, says Harvard should not move beyondproxy decisions to include moral questions inselecting stocks...
Colleges and universities are gateways to elite society. Education is the key that grants one access to privilege, to standing, to power. Universities therefore have a moral obligation to swing wide their doors and extend to those who have historically been missing from this elite an opportunity to change this situation...
...landscape dotted with many cracked foundations and few standing structures. The abuses of ideology and of claims to absolute truth our century witnessed have left us with a healthy distrust of right answers but have also made us hesitant to act on our beliefs or to take stands with moral repercussions...
...even the financial aid that many of us depend upon is a direct result of someone else's altruistic desire to give up part of their own pleasure for our enrichment. We have reaped the benefits of what others have done; if we do not consciously cultivate our moral character, we are no better than free-loaders living off of others...
...this has made you interested in bringing your moral life up to par with your professional training, let me humbly offer a few suggestions. Next Sunday night at 8 p.m., don't watch "The Simpsons." Watch "Touched by an Angel" instead. More importantly, thank your parents for bringing you into the world and for sacrificing so much to keep you here. Find a code of morality, or perhaps reacquaint yourself with the religious tradition of your forebears...