Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate us from the world outside. We must not forget that we are part of many other communities as well. Our families, our hometowns and our religious associations have given us so much over the years; we owe them more than we can possibly say. While many of us pride ourselves on our identity as individuals, we cannot deny the crucial role that communities have played in making us into the people we are today...
Harvard "boosters" sometimes lament a lack of school spirit among students, but in reality, there is no shortage of school pride. The very name, Harvard, is at once a badge and an embarrassment in conversation, because speaking it places us in the uncomfortable position of boasting. When people ask where we attend college, "a school in Boston" is a common response for the humble...
...more out on Friday, packed in along with the anthropology books and thesis notes will be the multi-hued collection of T-shirts that represent my color-fast dedication to Harvard. Each time I were one of those shirts in the future, I will be both reasserting my pride in my almamater and continuing to build a community of Harvard students outside the confines of the Yard...
...affinities so publicly on our bodies, all of us--whether we work with first-year students, Key-latch kids or volleyball teammates--are part of the Harvard and Radcliffe community. We know what HRO, IOP and PBHA stand for. What we wear is a legible emblem of our pride in our teams, our houses and our University...
...learned this slowly but surely, each time I finished those papers or gave that speech. By learning that I was indeed capable of facing the challenges in front of me, the pangs of loneliness, which had always accompanied this sinking feeling, changed to a pride in my independence and a faith in my abilities...