Word: write
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write in agreement with Benjamin L. Krefetz's letter ("Adamsians Selfish," Oct. 8) citing the selfishness and arrogance of Adams House residents who wish to keep their dining hall to themselves when it is crowded...
Also that day, The Crimson reported that in the past Harvard security guards had criticized Marshall for hiring her former law firm to write a report that exonerated the University on a racial discrimination suit, a suit brought by several Harvard guards...
...Certainly because of PR voters don't write anybody off," Koocher says. "It's like trying to pick which of your friends you like the best...
...certain earnest motivation to those who are involved with grassroots organizations like the living wage campaign. But, in some sense, this is to be expected. In general, students who devote their time to student groups at Harvard do so earnestly and honestly. Whether I decide to direct a play, write for a publication or celebrate my cultural heritage, it is because I gain some intrinsic pleasure from the activity itself. I have, to use Purdy's words, identified with a project, relationship or aspiration. My extracurricular choice--whatever it might be--would rarely elicit accusations of false or selfish motives...
Purdy, home-schooled by his counterculture parents in West Virginia, said he was spurred to write For Common Things by "a keen sense of ambivalence...between the obligation to do public work and the suspicion that that work is futile and self-indulgent...