Word: departing
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...their migration. Romanians continuously begged for clothing and go sell it on the street, stole whatever they could from the common supply rooms so that humanitarian relief workers had to keep supplies locked up and were audacious enough simply to leave their children outside of doctor's offices and depart, expecting the doctors to care for their children. East Germany had no real asylum laws, which coupled with West Germany's generosity led refugees to promote Germany as the promised land to all of their suffering countrymen at home. This demonstrated what Fritz calls a "basic principle of migration...
...Enter to grow in wisdom / Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind...
...that is not how we are liable to read the inscription on the other side. Thinking of "Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind" as a conditional would make little sense. Instead, we read the second inscription as an imperative--as if Harvard is now imploring us to put the wisdom learned inside the Yard to practical effect. Put the two readings together, and you have a trap: Harvard beckons us in with the promise of learning and personal intellectual growth. We merely need to enter. But once inside, we find that there is a price...
...order to help ourselves. Still, there is an "out" in the inscription for those who will be leaving Harvard this spring not primarily to serve their country or kind, but primarily to make money or have fun or simply be themselves and follow their passion. The inscription, recall, says "Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind"--better than what? Better, it seems logical to presume, than we could before entering the Yard in the first place...
Tomorrow, our women's ice hockey team will depart for Minnesota to begin its quest for the American Women's College Hockey Association National Championship. Seeded first, Harvard is the overwhelming favorite to bring home the title. Already, the team's accomplishments are mind-boggling. Riding off an amazing 28-game winning streak, it has captured both the Eastern College Athletic Conference regular season crown and the playoff championship. Boasting four of the nation's top five goal scorers, the team has an overall record of 31-1-0 and has outscored its opponents...