Word: synthesise
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Well, it certainly sounds promising, but I worry about all those traditions being lost. I refer to the spate of online universities that are being planned--cyberspace institutions that will compete with, possibly replace, established schools such as Harvard, Yale and Bob Jones. Skeptical of their efficacy, Stanley Ikenberry, president...
The architect of this conceptual prison built only two doors leading to a solution, with the path to each door marked by the same sign: FIND A REPLICATE! On one path, we make the replicates ourselves by gaining such an improved understanding of the nature of things that we can...
The problem with this kind of synthesis is that it is too pat, too easy for those coming from each perspective to only pay lip service to the other. If believing in synthesis means accepting that individualism and structure are two points on a continuum rather than two mutually exclusive...
What is flawed in these statements is the assumption that how Harvard impacts you is how it will impacts others. A more complex synthesis would be individually-tailored, recognizing that the same structures can have different effects based on the individual talents and capacities that each person brings to bear...
Harvard is--more than either its structures or its students--an ethos, a belief that success by conventional standards should precede all else. A true synthesis of individual and structure recognizes that the difference between happiness and unhappiness at Harvard is a matter of individual fit, of whether one's...