Word: self-respect
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...appears that despite a variety of appeals to morality, reason and institutional self-interest, the President of the University does indeed intend to appoint Arnold Harberger. Harberger tells us that he will not come to Harvard "under a cloud." We write to urge every student, faculty member, and other employees of the University who have any decency and self-respect to help turn the cloud into a full scale thunderstorm...
...glint in his eye, will be sponsored by U.S. corporations. Sullivan believes corporations should become the chief progressive force in South Africa, sponsoring special educational programs for black South Africans to develop the "educational infrastructure"--an area Sullivan emphasizes must be developed if blacks are ever to have the self-respect and acquire the jobs and power necessary to bring down apartheid...
...industrialization--pollution, increasing comptetition for higher education, overcrowding, inflation, substandard housing and a marked disparity in the economic security of the employees of large and small businesses. The LDP's political Ohira and his wounded party should stop playing Hatfield and McCoy; if not for Japan, for their own self-respect...
...Where have the last feelings of decency and self-respect gone when even our statesmen, in other ways a very unprejudiced kind of man and practical anti-Christians through and through, still call themselves Christians today and go to Communion?...A young prince at the head of his regiments, splendid as the expression of his people's egoism and presumption--but without any shame professing himself a Christian!...The practice of every hour, every instinct, every valuation which leads to action is today anti-Christian what a monster of falsity modern man must be that he is nonetheless not ashamed...
Life in the Cambridge rat race, as one might assume, doesn't bolster many people's self-confidence. Harvard is a place populated by very ambitious people," says Walters. 'You have to be ambitious to get here and to stay here--and keep your self-respect." It's not that Harvard induces depression, but rather that depression is a reaction to disappointments and college students have an inordinate amount of opportunities to be disappointed. "It's not a simple reaction to an 'F' in a course," Walters insists. "When students come to us, they're concerned not only about their...