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There’s nothing wrong with personal betterment. Every individual has the right to work hard to pay off student loans, to live comfortably and support a family. But it’s not right for these personal aspirations to be our only ones. A good, moral life balances personal goals with communal ones. Yes, one should work toward a career that is personally fulfilling, but one should also work to help others, to better one’s community, and to “serve better thy country and kind.” What’s crucial...
...Senior Week schedule does not reflect the proper balance, and, as a consequence, it sends the wrong message to our graduating class. How seriously are we to take exhortations toward public service after we’ve spent a full, Harvard-funded week eating, drinking (a lot), and enjoying ourselves? Yes, many of us have worked very hard in college, and, of course, this is our last chance to spend time with many of our friends. But how about a little bit of balance...
Does our readership increase for more than a day when we depict moderately-exciting Ivy League games as if they were Olympic contests between athletes from warring countries? For fear of being wrong, I’m not going to include any stats on this one, but we will just go with, “No?...
...people doubted this team and didn’t think we were going to be very good at all this year, and we kind of came together behind that,” junior forward Kate Buesser said. “It felt good to prove people wrong and continue the success...
Another small European country—Greece—also found itself on the brink of disaster. We held that it would be wrong for the people of France and Germany, two of the only European nations with fiscal houses in comparative order, to devote their own tax dollars to reward the Greek government’s gross profligacy and egregious irresponsibility. Instead, we advocated for a bailout of Greece by the International Monetary Fund, as the stigma associated with such a bailout was well-deserved in this case. Additionally, members of the European Union should not have...