Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Christopher S. Howe '89 walked into his freshman triple for the first time, his roommate thought he was seeing double. Chris looked exactly like Kenneth M. Hirsh '89, who was about to spend a year with...
Using this form, which the future frosh return during the summer months, the six senior advisers will sit down and spend four weeks and close to $200,000 playing Harvard's unique version of the dating game--matching personalities and peculiarities in the search for the perfect rooming group...
...have a whole lot of funds to do with as we please. Why should we worry whether we spend the money on something that is 'necessary?' Were the pyramids 'necessary'? Was Vietnam 'necessary'? Were the rocks in front of the Science Center 'necessary'? Sometimes you just have to do something for the hell of it--kill some time, spend a few bucks...
Hart's megalomonia probably is slightly less divine, though. He's too existential to think he--or anyone else--is a messiah. Instead, he seems to fancy himself some latter-day "Great Legislator." Many philosophers--all of whom Hart has read--spend a great deal of time waxing eloquent about the need of a people for such a visionary and just man to set down laws for them and to lead them to the promised land of social harmony and peace. Hart clearly thinks himself a neo-liberal, technocratic Moses...
Indeed, Hart said Tuesday that if he could choose his epitaph, it would be, "He educated his people." He wasn't talking about the need to spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...