Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pollick is not alone in citing the dean's vision as one of his greatest attributes...
Evans says he admires Tosteson's "capacity to remember why it is we're all doing what we're doing--you might call that the 'vision thing...
Kitz, who has been at the Medical School for 27 years, says Tosteson's vision is one of the most revolutionary things about...
...Harvard vision of success seemed to be a combination of raw talent and a survival-of-the-fittest environment, where competition and natural selection would weed out the weak and where the strong would rise to the top--the products of a rigorous distillation of ability into a narrowly-defined conception of achievement. Harvard was great because of its Nobel laureates and its alumni heads of state, because it filled corporate boardrooms and seats in Congress. Its dominance of this type of accomplishment seemed enchanted. Good people came to Harvard to be challenged and proven against the mettle...
...there is another vision of success that Harvard nurtures, one that I have always felt was done on a quieter level but which is more important. It is achievement in a world of human interaction, on an intimately personal level. It is self-development, the building of a sense of community and helping those outside our community. It is the instillation of a way of relating to others that is not complacent, that is sensitive to difference, that is probing...