Word: pulpiteering
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...Mohawk Superfine Paper”—one can only conclude that what was suspected sitting through Rudenstine’s brain-aching addresses was actually the truth. Pointing Our Thoughts will teach future generations only that in 10 eminently forgettable years, Neil Rudenstine used the bully pulpit bequeathed by Eliot, Conant and Pusey only when it came time to pass the collection plate. This, in turn, meant that from the perspective of the undergraduate population, which knew him only as a stooped and unassuming figure glimpsed occasionally between Mass Hall and the Faculty Club—and from...
...meeting in Pulpit Harbor, Maine, Pusey says $125 million is needed for the university...
Where Conant had been the public figure, weighing in on national policy debate and ultimately taking time off from Harvard to work on the Manhattan project, Pusey used the bully pulpit to press for the campaign. Pusey roamed the country pitching “the case for Harvard,” even making a national television appearance...
...typical country church, this one outside Dengfeng county is run by a lay minister who has received no special training on dealing with strange sects. It is poor. The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls. The biggest single expenditure this year was the $25 the congregation gave its most desperate members to celebrate the lunar new year. Every Sunday 150 peasants crowd onto low wooden benches to receive the Word, including a gray-haired woman known as Granny...
...issues. He knows that the world is becoming a smaller place, and a more dangerous place. His opening reference to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was balanced by his call for the increased openness and communication that are stimulated by advances in digital communication technology. Rudenstine shunned the bully pulpit that the presidency of Harvard offered him. We hope that Summers will make every use of it to advance Harvard’s educational and institutional interests, to engage Harvard more deeply with the rest of the world and to continue to bring the best people in the world...