Word: timing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, Koc's son told the Gazette, "Lately, Turkey has been not quite understood by the West--there is often a question in Westerners' minds about which direction Turkey will eventually take. We think it is important that Harvard--as a center of excellence--lead the way with research and teaching about the realities of Turkey today...
...House masters present at a meeting yesterday consented, for the first time, to a trial run of universal keycard access (UKA) for upperclass students between...
...time we, the student body, write a collective letter to our friends at Williams or Swarthmore, Wesleyan or Amherst. It doesn't have to be long, just enough to admit the truth: Liberal-arts colleges, you win. You possess the nation's most innovative minds, the most intellectual student body. You are the stomping grounds for the great thinkers of the next millennium. We, Harvard, will stop trying to lord over you, stop saying that we are better or smarter, because it just isn't true. You can out-think us any day of the week...
...intellectual high school senior probably self-selects away from Harvard and toward schools like Swarthmore. Imagine what you would think of a student who showed up as a pre-frosh and asked when the last time you were up late struggling with Wittgenstein's theories of games or Weber's predictions for the future of civilization--not just writing a response paper after skimming half the book, but really considering the challenges posed by these thinkers. Imagine if they asked if the triumphs and catastrophes, big and small, we face every day, even if we rush by and pretend...
Maybe the undifferentiated mass of "work" we always talk about is the real problem. Where is the "learning from discussions with others" touted in those viewbooks? Does anyone ever carry conversation beyond section? When is the last time you got into a discussion with a roommate over reading for a class you don't have in common, or even one you do have in common? Hey, when is the last time you talked about anything with your roommates? Harvard often seems like an intellectual wasteland...