Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cabot says the expansion of HMC to 90 staffers promises, in the long run, more money for Harvard. "We are running our affairs better today, we have a higher level of discussion, than I think we've ever had before. The general level of quality of input can only reflect, hopefully, in better results...
Most importantly, we refused to reflect on an alternative for ordinary university students. Our message to them was to choose sides, to give up their reactionary fantasies of moving with the ruling class and to dedicate themselves full-time to the revolution. When we had the ear of hundreds of thousands of students across America and around the world, we convinced them that there was no way to combine a profession, a career and a family with a contribution to political change. They believed us and made an uneasy peace with the system. Sooner than we, they realized that they...
...Calkins's experiences at Harvard and in Cleveland seem to parallel each other; voters lopsidedly removed him from the school board after one term, Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, and the Corporation gained new faces who seemed to reflect a new latent desire, both at Harvard and around the country for less visible, dynamic...
...elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, and later served clerkships with Chief Justices Learned Hand and Felix Frankfurter. Now 60, he remains a highly regarded tax and corporate lawyer, and while less active with liberal causes than he was 15 years ago, his concerns continue to reflect a deep-seated desire for social justice...
...level, the complaints--often raised to state-of-the-art whining as in Graves' characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best students to admire individualism rather than the institution. I don't think that's a bad thing, but that makes thing tough for college presidents...