Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neil L. Rudenstine, today's Harvard president, is to be believed, his tenure in office will be no less important than Eliot's or Conant's. Higher education, he contends, is again at a crossroads, and Harvard must once again radically rethink the way it operates in order to keep up with changes in academic pedagogy...
Harvard came first in America and has led since the 17th century. Its prestige today seems as strong as ever-the number of students who accepted Harvard's admissions offer climbs to a new high every year (80 percent in 1999) and far outpaces that of other top universities...
...21st century, Harvard will need toreconcile its vision for applied education withthe theoretical approach that is today thehallmark of the way the University pursuesveritas...
...Today, on this sunny morning in June, that end--which once seemed a point too far in the distance even to consider--has actually arrived. And Harvard was right: Those of us graduating today are thankful to this mighty institution for providing us with the framework to grow and learn together...
...everyone who stood in Tercentenary Theater four years ago has the pleasure of standing there again today. My classmates, Sarah Theresa Craig; Harvard Clarence Nabrit Stephens; Deshaun Raymond Hill; and David L. Okrent graduated from life too early. For me and many of my peers, their tragic deaths were a first experience with mortality. Experiencing their loss helped me to realize that while I may have entered college an eager-eyed teenager, I exit, an adult...