Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five years from now we will write entries for the Class Book detailing our material successes. At least one person, however, will step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure is the person who loses their inner moral compass, who gives up hope, who becomes part of the system instead of a voice urging--sometimes in the face of public opinion--to change...
...goes well in the next few hours, my walk to Tercentenary Theater for closing exercises today will thankfully be far less painful than on convocation day in the fall of 1993. Still, just as I did four years ago, I will watch the program with my mind full of wonder about the challenges ahead. This time, though, I know that while the things to come are bound to be big, Harvard has taught us to embrace them to the fullest...
While we appreciate the University's attempts to control costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wane due to the competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. The new contract for Local 254, Harvard's union of custodial workers, is a case in point: older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans to make room for new employees who will be paid far less...
...will return to serve on religious boards, to head city planning commissions, sit on the bench, flip pancakes at school breakfasts and raise children. We will return, sometimes in spite of the best-laid plans, because we wonder who will act if we do not. We will think of how our communities could benefit from the liberal education we have received. And we will know that we have a responsibility to give back to the towns that raised...
...decision of President Neil L. Rudenstine to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig led many in the academic community to wonder whether the University's public commitment to diversity is matched in its private decisions...