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Food, like so much else at Harvard, simply isn’t something we have to worry about. The system in place to keep us well-fed and happy easily masks the situation that most people in the world??and many in this country—face. Hunger is thus an abstract concept, not a daily reality. We think nothing of wine and brie, and, somewhere along the way without realizing it, we begin to assume that we will enjoy these things for the rest of our lives; that to refrain would be strange and maybe even shameful...
Life is a series of preparations. As a toddler, you prepare for preschool. Preschool prepares you for elementary school, which prepares you for high school, which prepares you for college, which ultimately prepares you for work in the “real world?? and the abstract notion of life. What's next? Retirement. Then death. This is the general trend of life...
...hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world??s deepest inequities [and] on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity,” the former Currier House resident said...
...left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world??the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair,” he said. “It took me decades to find...
...academy ought to be more than just a house of thought that happens to award diplomas. A university must identify the nation and the world??s chief challenges, and it should nudge its students into specializations accordingly. A university that fails to do so is derelict in its duty to society...