Word: reasonings
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...view, there is no good reason to believe that there is a political litmus test at work in the selection of speakers. Many factors, not least of which is the availability of the speaker, are taken into account, and we doubt Thatcher has not been pursued at some time by the University. Moreover, the three world leaders Mansfield cited as "mediocre" are far from it. Robinson, for one, is a crusader for human rights worldwide who previously revolutionized the office of the Irish presidency...
...view, there is no good reason to believe that there is a political litmus test at work in the selection of speakers. Many factors, not least of which is the availability of the speaker, are taken into account, and we doubt Thatcher has not been pursued at some time by the University. Moreover, the three world leaders Mansfield cited as "mediocre" are far from it. Robinson, for one, is a crusader for human rights worldwide who previously revolutionized the office of the Irish presidency...
...have dreamed of until now. We could have selected an equally good class from the pool of applicants we rejected, but we didn't. We chose you. Go, then, and fulfill our hopes for you. Take advantage of every opportunity you can by whichever means you deem necessary (within reason, please), and when you're done and you've seen how fantastic we really are, give us money as a show of appreciation, so that we can continue to deliver this message for another three and a half centuries. Good luck, and don't cry. It might get worse before...
Harvard should improve the quality of our education--for starters, by hiring more Faculty, limiting class size, increasing the number of Core offerings and providing quality advising to everyone, not just to those who seek it--for the same reason it doesn't have to--because it can. Where there's a will there's a way, particularly when you have $13 billion in capital; the fact that the University spent 3 percent of its endowment last year, however (over $100 million less than its own stated goal of between 4 and 5 percent), shows that the will simply...
Like many things in life, the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard could be better than it is. The difference in this case is that there is no good reason why it isn't. The availability of excellence at Harvard College is not compensation enough for those students here who have been unable to find it and profit from...