Word: preferably
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However the workings of the board remain relatively mysterious to most of the University community. The President Treasurer, and five Fellows who make up the Corporation prefer to remain in the background letting others implement their decisions. Today, in the final two installments of a three part series. The Crimson examines the history of the Harvard Corporation, how its role has hanged over the last 334 years and how it governs the University today...
...individual future, when life could be dedicated something beyond itself. I did not have a term for it then, but I now know that I measured my life by the concept of duty. I did not know how I would use my future, but I knew that I would prefer none at all if it meant a life of mere personal success. In the end my use of the term "ruling class was not a political or economic category but rather interpression of moral disdain. It signified a very different group of people, different not in education, culture, or individual...
...second mistake was to prefer a clear conscience to any meaningful conception of politics. The anti-war movement was gestated in miniscule groups of moral protest, like the Boston Resistance, with a quasi-religious fervor for martyrdom. For many of us, it was simply enough to be right. So to the extent we were moved to action, we were interested not in convincing or compromise, but rather only in the direct expression of our political beliefs. The passion for directness was a kind of style. We dressed in our politics, and we wanted all who met us to confront them...
...your letter, please tell me of courses that stretched your mind. I am willing to hear about failures; but frankly, I would much rather hear of successes. Since this is a continuing interest of mine, if you would prefer to send me your reactions after you have more perspective, that would be fine. Best wishes wherever you will be doing your analytical thinking and using your skills as a learner
Perhaps professors sometimes deny that ideology, personality, and academic politics influence their teaching, tenure decisions, and scholarship. Some prefer, instead, to pretend that theirs is a pure vocation, a neutral pursuit of knowledge, independent of base emotions and ambitions which exist in the outside secular world...