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...should be the next step in the council’s ongoing effort to keep students up-to-date with events happening on and around campus. The council sends out a useful events calendar through its e-mail list every week. This newsletter varies in size and breadth; it ought to be expanded significantly into a more comprehensive and substantial list. It is currently impossible to find out about Harvard’s myriad events without subscribing to a large number of e-mail lists; an extensive council calendar would greatly improve this situation...
Harvard undergraduates already know about the services and businesses available to them in the Square; they surely do not need a council “endorsement” to inform them. The council ought to have more serious priorities...
...students said they disagreed with Knowles as to how these objectives, particularly increasing the number of courses and faculty, ought to be achieved...
That lively spirit and unaffected dignity disarmed even her enemies. A trouble-making South African once approached her with this challenge: "I don't think much of royalty. I think South Africa ought to be a republic." Without skipping a beat, Elizabeth replied, "That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it." Such remarks were rarely for public consumption and often self-deprecating: "You think I'm a nice person," she told her friend Woodrow Wyatt in the 1980s. "I'm really not a nice person...
...church tribunal demanded that Joan of Arc submit to the authority of the church. She shrewdly answered that she submitted to the authority of God, since "our Lord and the church are the same." The church ought to have learned, after all these years, not to push Catholics toward the place where, in their disillusioned hearts, they will, like Joan, listen for the unmediated voice of God and decide that the church, with too many squalors and secrets, is untrustworthy and perhaps an irrelevance...