Word: training
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...much of its early existence Harvard's function was primarily to train young men for the Protestant ministry; the University was founded in piety, and, some say, that piety lives on (it's just a little harder to find these days, having become sort of secularized). On the surface Harvard is a fairly Godless place, and President Pusey used to attract a great deal of derision by saying things about "the present low estate of religion at Harvard." Someone once asked Pusey what the single most important quality for a Harvard president was, and he answered "a belief...
...average parental income of students here is sky-high, and the University's Governing Boards, if not its faculty, are still populated by the heirs to America's oldest East-coast fortunes. In that sense Harvard's real function is to train the children of the powerful to take the power themselves, so as to keep it in the family. The reason Harvard graduates have has such a profound influence on America--five of them have been U.S. presidents, countless others presidents of corporations--is not so much their innate talent as their good luck at being born...
...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...
Like the different countries they transverse, the trains range abruptly from luxurious to primitive. Passengers, food and the scenery change each day in slow, unwinding diversity. "Looking out a train window in Asia," Theroux writes, "is like watching an unedited travelogue without the obnoxious sound track." Yet his own sound track is anything but that. Perhaps not since Mark 3 Twain's Following the Equator (1897) ° have a wanderer's leisurely impressions 3 been hammered into such wry, incisive ° mots. Venice sits on its industrialized gulf "like a drawing room in a gas station"; small villages...
...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...