Word: subject
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...Crimson had run a staff editorial on the previous day calling for Harvard to divest from Shell Oil. This editorial mentioned a Council resolution, passed week and a half before, which calls for divestment as well. It is difficult to conceive that the Crimson did not consider this, the subject of their own staff editorial, relevant. Spirit Week and related events may not enhance our relevance, but they have consumed relatively little of the Council's time, energy, and money this semester...
...Cabot, James, Wadsworth, Goffe, Longfellow--the list is endless and boggles the mind. Indeed, the catalog of the intellectual, spiritual and political leadership of the United States bears so uncanny a resemblance to the list of Harvard's alumni that this College's designation as a fascinating and legitimate subject of study seems evident, even obvious. (In his book New England Literary Culture, Professor Lawrence Buell points out that "more than one-third of all male New England writers of consequence between the Revolution and the Civil War" were Harvard graduates.) And yet, out of all the courses described...
...argument will be put forward that, while all this might be neat for Harvard students to study, it would be irrelevant at other schools, and that areas of study are not circumstance-particular. In other words, if a subject of study is legitimate at Harvard then it should be relevant and legitimate at colleges elsewhere. Even if one agrees that a course on Harvard and its impact would be inappropriate at other colleges (although I would argue that it would be every bit as relevant, albeit uncomfortable), certainly undergraduates here have a great deal to gain from it in particular...
...October 23, Judge Leon Higginbotham of the Kennedy School of Government testified on the subject of affirmative action before a United States Senate subcommittee on the Constitution. So did the president of the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC), Susan Au Allen. USPAACC is a national non profit organization representing Asian American men and women in business and other professions...
...just teach math, I teach discipline and responsibility," said Jaime Escalante, who was the subject of the film "Stand and Deliver...