Word: summersã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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University officials stress that Summers?? initiative is only in its earliest fact-finding stages. Harvard’s graduate schools are pulling together data on current aid and explaining their unmet needs in response to a questionnaire sent out by the central administration...
...numbers are rolling in—President Lawrence H. Summers?? promise to bolster aid at the University’s graduate schools is likely to be both costly and complicated...
...Harvard, either in Summers?? office or at the IOP, has seen the text of Clinton’s speech—although the topics will likely be public service, globalization, and the aftermath of Sept...
Equally refreshing is Summers??s emphasis on the necessity for Harvard to support the military. While these statements have not yet been accompanied by any serious effort to end the University’s wrongheaded, identity-politics-driven anti-ROTC policy, it is heartening, to say the least, to hear our president stressing Harvard’s commitment to back “those who fight and are prepared to die” for this country...
Only once, in all his collected speeches, does Rudenstine touch seriously on such issues—and then it is only to dispense bromides about Harvard being “indigenously American but simultaneously global.” The difference between this call and Summers??s recent declaration that “of all the kinds of public service, there is a special nobility, a special grace to those who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for our country” tells us much about the change that our country has undergone in the last month...