Word: cheapening
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...want improved teaching fellows, better planning for larger classes and more thoughtful advising in the course selection process. However, the pseudo-preregistration system that is in the works may very well accomplish none of these goals. And in the process, the new culture of course selection will only cheapen and further commodify a Harvard education...
...informal sampling of longtime Lands' End customers indicates that Lacy may have a lot of persuading to do. Some are worried that the link with Sears will cheapen Lands' End. "What is a clothing manufacturer if not image--and they're about to kill their image," says Nicole Gueron, 33, a lawyer from New York City who describes herself as an "off-and-on" customer of Lands' End for the past 15 years. Marietta Caiarelli, 59, a nurse from St. Louis, Mo., says she hopes the Lands' End quality and service she has come to depend on don't suffer...
...their ubiquity, ribbons are being used more as an advertisement for the week’s activities than actually as a symbol of committed sympathy and awareness—and the issue at hand is too serious to cheapen with empty symbols of effortless advocacy. Ribbons should be earned. If distributed at all, they should be at the group’s events, where audience members, by virtue of showing up, have shown that they appreciate the feeling that is behind it. And after the survivors have spoken and shared their pent-up emotions, and after we, the flier-tossers...
...deeds and not words, Beamer would probably find the "Let's roll" sensation a little strange. His widow hopes the tchotchkes don't cheapen the message behind the two words: "It's about standing up for what you believe in and taking action without thought to the personal consequences." How about printing those words on some coffee mugs...
...Harvard Faculty Club on the cover. In brackets below the photo: "warm welcome". It's almost too good to be true. For a mere $60 introductory membership, I can join the Harvard Faculty Club. This most elite institution will welcome me to sit by the hearth. But does this cheapen Harvard? I wonder what the professor who gave me a "C" in statistics would think to see me lounging around his club? But I momentarily considered joining...