Word: think
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...version of the statement circulated among some Faculty members contained another sentence that was removed in the printed version: "Although we can conceive of circumstances that would outweigh this argument [against a formal vote], we do not think they yet exist...
...When I think of the work we should be doing under this roof it is with Lowell's ideas as signposts. The points of reference suggested by Lowell are, I have always thought, the pivotal ideas of the work of the Health Services, and a large part of the work that goes on in the several Dean's offices at Harvard College. This work has to do with the personal and private aspects of education. I do not mean to say that Lowell has it all right in detail, but I do think that by understanding the mood...
...read you a passage from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice which says something about what is to be communicated so that people really know that you think it matter's what happens to them. Cleaver writes: "You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I've kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore, how I sat in a rage that...
...version of it meant in some sense care, concern, and kindness. But we do not live by definitions, rather by the individual will and style that is a part of us, and by which we cope with the world and meet the people who come our way. I think the new sensibility asks that we talk to people in our offices or the Harvard dining halls sitting on the edge of our chairs...
...Harvard we find a concord of sensibilities that call for some degree of excellence, seriousness about one's part in the enterprise and uncertainty about Harvard when it is a system. We all have heard of the Harvard arrogance, but I think much more characteristic is the antithesis, the questioning of this place by people who have been here a long while, and by those who have just come. I think this questioning is the way to insure that the individual and political questions at Harvard will be met with passion and reason. Perhaps the suspense created by the question...