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...will and motivation of students. The intense energy and self-motivation is incredible. And whether or not resume-building plays a part at the start, ultimately most students accept huge amounts of responsibility, sometimes at a cost that no line on a resume alone could repay. Although the common sentiment expressed is that students should be focusing all their energy and strength on academics, I think that it is misguided. Perhaps in the days of yesteryear, when students at Harvard were small in number and elite in status, they could ignore the world outside and concentrate on great books...
Board members also argued that "students see this area as one that is residential," using a letter expressing opposition to the variance from the Signet Society as evidence of student sentiment...
...three panelists spoke about their family upbringings, using Spanish phrases when they felt the English translation just could not quite capture the sentiment...
...feel, as the staff apparently does, however, that these incidents represent a "latent" or "deepseated" homophobic sentiment on campus. Any candid person will admit that, of all their problems, a lack of tolerance is not high on the list for Harvard students...
...take these incidents and infer the existence of broader campus sentiment is foolish. It only proves that, once again, democratic intellectuals love abstractions and generalities, just like Alexis de Tocqueville said they would over a hundred years ago in Democracy in America...