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...like the crucial tests come with the big things. Did you give up a lucrative job to help starving kids in Haiti? Did you take a stand against your government? Did you die in the line of duty? But the crucial tests come more often—in fact, they come everyday. Those common courtesies—which today are not so common—are tests of whether you respect all mankind. And you can see the angst that the lack of them has caused on campus. Young people today have lots of “contacts...
Power said that like many of the “overachievers” in the crowd, as a child she, too, was eager to make a name for herself. In fact, as a five-year-old, she took the liberty of scrawling “Samantha Power did this” in orange crayon atop her mother’s newly printed, 300-plus page doctoral dissertation, she recalled...
Kneerim said that she and her classmates were “all keenly aware” of these inequalities. “Surely we were all deeply affected by the fact that there were no women in leadership,” she said. “You can imagine how extraordinary and marvelous it was when suddenly Radcliffe had a woman president [again]. It was an exciting revolution...
...other hand, for a team that is used to finding success on both the regional and national levels, the fact that the Harvard co-ed squad, after somewhat of a mediocre regular season, was only able to qualify for one of two national championship regattas has come as somewhat of a disappointment for the team...
Even in The Crimson, the newspaper for which I write, we oftentimes see more focus put on men’s sports than women’s. I doubt this is ever on purpose. Simply put, the average person will think of men playing sports before women. In fact, at our beat draft two years ago (the time when each sportswriter can pick a sport they want to follow for the entire year), softball was the last sport picked, while baseball was secured in the first round...