Word: onus
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...kind of continuity in an ancient college that will celebrate its 400th birthday during my 30th reunion. It’s a feeling of being part of something bigger. Put in the effort to help plan happy hour, plant flowers in your courtyard, or start a foosball league. The onus falls upon the current generation of students to sustain old traditions and start new ones.Not To Do:1. Don’t hole up in your bedroom. Sleep is for the weak, and work can wait another day. The joy of a House stems from the fact that there...
...with so many pitchers,” Cole says. “I think there’s definitely a lot of potential on the staff this year.” With a potent Harvard offense in place that stacks heavy hitters up and down the lineup, the onus falls on the pitching staff to hold up its end of the bargain. “If you just look at our lineup, we have nine guys who can swing the stick,” Haviland says, “so it’s going to depend on not just...
...into motion. According to Menand, recent events are “unfortunate because the momentum was there in spite of all the troubles.” But Menand feels that the faculty will still have significant input in the future of the Curricular Review, which should take the onus off of the heir to the throne.But no matter what questions the future president of Harvard has to answer, everything depends on who gets chosen to sit in the hot seat...
...Eliots, the Connants of our history—have been bold visionaries who took a hands-on role in defining University policy and more broadly, the central tenets of American higher learning. Summers was brought in to revitalize the University presidency as Harvard looks to reflect and retool.The onus is on the Faculty to air and, further, to act on genuine, substantive, and specific grievances when they exist. But the continued venting of general, undirected dissatisfaction with Summers’ brusqueness, his abruptness, or any of his acknowledged idiosyncrasies, is a disservice to the entire Harvard community. A distracted Faculty...
...food stamps, in medical coverage for the poor and the elderly, in student aid, cuts that will hit the very people whose eloquent pleas for help gripped the nation and moved us all.” He later called on progressives to reinvigorate local governance. “The onus is on those of us who believe in government—who believe government has an affirmative role to play in investing in our future and sustaining our prosperity—to demonstrate that government can work better than it does today,” he said. Several times during...