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...reported a remark about the “Veritas” seal made by one Dr. Holmes at a Harvard Club dinner in New York. It might well serve as our maxim in 2006: “The Harvard College of to-day wants no narrower, or more exclusive motto than truth—truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine...
...possessions. Some years ago, several teenagers committed murder to get hold of Nike Jordan sneakers, just like many have been killed in iPod-related assaults. This is not even about Professor John K. Galbraith’s argument on advertisements creating mirages of brand loyalty, but about our social motto of “you are what you own.” Food obsessions and brand deification are instances of the same materialist problem...
...slogan for its famed Condom Week: “When you rise…condomize.” Three thousand miles to the east and 25 years later, Harvard’s Community Health Initiative (CHI) still denies first-year men the resources to fulfill that prophetic motto. Thankfully, the Undergraduate Council recently passed a bill to support the placement of condoms in all freshmen dorms to supplement the current supply in the Houses—a move that Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 has encouraged. We hope that in the coming weeks, CHI addresses...
...find the entire process of finding a summer job very intimidating. Last summer, as my friends’ internships led them to conquests on Wall Street, launchings of their 2024 presidential campaigns, establishments of new religions, etc., I found myself coaching 10-year-olds at a youth football camp (Motto: “No! Run the other way!”). At night, while my classmates were in Chile discovering extrasolar planets, I was in my pajamas discovering the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. While some students were interning at hospitals learning how to save lives, I was giving...
...After eight years of incredible growth, it's fair to ask whether Google is due for a stumble. To put it another way, Can Google maintain its success and remain true to the ideals that made it so popular? These are the guys who adopted as their informal corporate motto "Don't be evil." Sure, analysts in recent years have asked frequently whether Google's luck has run out, and yet the company kept thriving. But its vulnerability was plainly evident two weeks ago when jittery investors cashed out en masse after it reported an 82% increase in its fourth...