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...member of the Faculty, I sense my exclusion from valued aspects of those Festival Rites. Not being to that manor born, I will be forever outside a club I admire and respect. My status is an accident of circumstance and, during a particular day in June, I occasionally regret the circumstance. But I neither resent, nor would I tamper with, the privileges attendant on being a member of the Class of whatever. Similarly for a variety of other "clubs" comprising the Harvard fabric. Nowadays, the exclusive character of most is premised on members sharing some particular skill--athletic, scholarly, artistic...
...regret that," he said...
Under circumstances of continuing controversy associated with the Center, and out of a commitment to the interests of the Center and his colleagues, Professor Safran has indicated to me that he would prefer to step down as director. He has also expressed to me his profound regret for the effects the disclosure problem has had on the Center and its constituents. With sadness and deep reservation, I have accepted his decision with the understanding that he will serve as director until the end of the academic year to facilitate an orderly transition to a new administration. While I respect...
...interpreted as a series of legends abandoned. Not only did Paul Revere never say "One if by land, two if by sea," and all that, but he never even got to Concord to warn the Minutemen of the oncoming British. Nathan Hale probably never said on the gallows, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Jefferson preached that all men are equal, but he kept slaves, and so did Washington. And Betsy Ross never sewed that first American flag either...
Melcher, who is writing about the evolution of the Viet Nam Communist Party, started his research last February. He says, though, that he didn't work very hard at first--something he's beginning to regret now. "This fall, I'm supposed to be one step ahead of everyone, but it's not quite working out that way," he says...