Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This past year the study of ethics was given a tentative place in the first-year courseload, incorporated as a seven-session, ungraded module which lasted three weeks and was required of all entering students...
After some recruiting during the past two years, Harvard now has a core of about half a dozen ethicists among its 108-member faculty. Only a few of the nine professors who teach the first-year module can be considered ethics scholars, having devoted significant research to issues in the field...
During this past year, while the Law School faculty remained divided by tenure debates, the school's students pulled together to generate an activism that made their concerns known to the entire campus...
...most didn't hear. Most didn't care. Many left Harvard for far-off states and commitments, no longer concerned with a diverse faculty or a student say in University policy. Others sank into harried East Coast jobs, working at the office well past nine at night, shielded by layers of secretaries. For almost all, Harvard was reduced to a line on a resume, a loan to repay, an annual fundraising plea, some drunken anecdotes, a few bad memories...
Hopefully, these internalized messages of openness will be what differentiates this generation's leadership from the past. We can still criticize our college experience for not being the intellectual epiphany people expect from Harvard. And we can demand further opening of this community. But if we take away one thing from Harvard, it won't be a career or an inapplicable liberal arts education; it will be an open mind...