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...this is a dangerous vision for a poet. Wright forgets that poetry’s virtue??its saving grace—is particularity. Readers can access poetry’s meaning only through the nuances of the text, through the heft and rhythm of a single word...
...athletes and engaging in open conversation would do more to shatter misconceptions and improve the strength of our undergraduate community than secretly wishing away entire subgroups of our peers ever could.Perhaps a moment of common humility—I am, I realize, ideally situated to lecture on this particular virtue??will convince us all that any attempt to define Harvard along exclusionary lines is a radical affront to our complex undergraduate population. Until then, I shall simply have to resign myself to the fact that a strong college community simply doesn’t exist at Harvard. Paul...
These women span the ideological divide with respect to American militarism. Both have dedicated their lives to the service of the same government, but their personal experiences have driven them to opposite conclusions about its virtue??their disagreement is a microcosm of the national discourse...
...Committee on General Education appears to concur, noting that “a responsible education must help students develop their capacities for reasoning and for responsible judgment.” Though espousing these ideals, the report nevertheless fails to preserve perhaps the Core’s greatest virtue??a required component in morality and ethics. Without such a requirement, the report, despite its best intentions, threatens to push the University in the direction of a value-free shopping mall. We’re all happy to see the Core go, and the proposed system of distribution requirements will...
...promoting the program, Conant evoked Thomas Jefferson’s idea of a “natural aristocracy of talents and virtue?? and the need to provide equal opportunity to intellectually capable citizens, regardless of social background. Conant tied the expansion of Harvard’s student body to “the welfare of the nation,” as he wrote in his memoir, “My Several Lives...