Word: sentimentalization
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Weld had JFK. Hollis had Emerson. Wigglesworth had Bill Gates. At a place like Harvard, history—and who was pre-gaming in your room 40 years ago—is definitely a point of pride. That’s a sentiment the tour guides of Unofficial Tours (UT), Inc. (unofficially known as Hahvahd Tours) trifled with this fall, when they mistakenly told visitors that roommates Al Gore ’69 and Tommy Lee Jones ’69 lived in Holworthy Hall instead of Mower Hall. In November, the blatant error finally caused Holworthy residents...
...definitely has some [legacies] that are less positive, but I don’t think that effects the legitimacy of the Rhodes scholarships.” Former Rhodes scholar Robert I. Rotberg, author of a biography of Rhodes and a program director at the Kennedy School, echoed the sentiment of this year’s winners. “Whatever one might think of Cecil Rhodes himself, he did leave money for the Rhodes scholarships, and there are enough Rhodes scholars at Harvard to demonstrate that it was a good gift...
...global in nature.As the threat of Japanese or German attack grew, so did student support for American intervention. Conant saw more success in turning student opinion as Britain and France came under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses of the Battle of Britain, sentiment was no longer divided, according to Morton and Phyllis Keller’s book “Making Harvard Modern.” Learned Hand Professor of Law Emeritus Oliver Oldman ’42 remembers that, by his senior year, campus sentiment was unified...
...closeted as they are in, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. Until today Conservatism followed Orthodoxy?s legal lead, based in part on the biblical injunction that ?You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.? But many Conservative congregations have openly gay members, and pro-gay-rights sentiment is on the rise, especially among younger Jews. At the branch?s largest teaching body, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a group called Keshet has been handing out buttons demanding ?Ordination Regardless of Orientation...
...very different sentiment is aired nearby in the mainly Sunni district of Tarek Jdeide, where a group of laughing young men chant crude insults at Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's charismatic leader. "If the Shi'ites topple the government, Hizballah will take power and we will have a Shi'ite state, but we won't let that happen," says Yussef Beydoun, 21. "Tarek Jdeide will continue to be a citadel of resilience against the Shi'ites...