Word: traditionalize
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From “pre-frosh” weekend, presumptive Harvard students are nursed on bile toward Yale. Echoes of the rivalry reverberate in orientation sessions and programs during early September’s Freshmen Week. By the opening kickoff of the football season a few weeks later, the newest...
We should not be surprised by such ambivalence. Tradition is a dangerous word in progressive circles like this University. Especially at Harvard, tradition connotes racism, sexism, and elitism—oak-paneled back rooms filled with the heavy bouquet of brandy and thick swirls of cigar smoke, and other such...
Any of the poor audience members at President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony, drenched by downpour—auguring perhaps the Heavens’ displeasure with the proceedings—and subjected to all the platitudinous ennui, could observe the new administration’s explicit hostility...
Every institution, and especially one that fosters such life-long connections as a university, needs tradition. The memory of the past and the examples of those gone before serve as the social glue that tie together often disparate elements of a community and direct them toward a common purpose. Harvard?...
Tradition likewise demands respect for the past, that we only with the greatest care appraise its apparent mistakes. But at Harvard, where innovation is king and eyes are fixed on the future, such respect is lacking. No wonder that the Harvard-Yale patriotism appears so hollow and artificial.