Pointing our thoughts : reflections on Harvard and higher education, 1991-2001 /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- The enduring university: The values of education.
- The university and diversity: Diversity and learning at Harvard
- Free expression in a diverse society
- Sustaining an inclusive vision
- Persevering
- University debate and freedom of speech
- Access and affordability
- Some essential institutional values.
- The arts and humanities: The challenging nature of the humanities
- A perpetual visual motion machine
- Melodic transgressions (John Harbison)
- Testing the limits (Ellsworth Kelly)
- Firmly grounded ideas
- A continuing conversation.
- Science and technology: New technologies and their promise for higher education
- The fruits of science and serendipity
- Our pursuit of science and health
- This astonishing technological phenomenon.
- The professions, community, and public service: The changing professions
- A mind as it reasons (Kathleen Sullivan)
- Leading medical education
- Landscape architecture at Harvard
- Servant of the public good (Alan Greenspan)
- Celebrating courage and commitment
- A sympathetic imagination (Justice Margaret Marshall)
- Casting and recasting
- Contributing to the life of our community.
- Thinking internationally: Engaging global realities
- Indigenously American but simultaneously global
- Exchanging differences
- A democrat who has learned from a king (Nelson Mandela)
- Pitching into commitments (David Rockefeller)
- Transforming situations (Yitzhak Rabin)
- A major turning point in international studies.
- The worlds of Harvard: Pointing our thoughts
- Integrating knowledge
- A spirit not to be quenched (Thomas Dudley Cabot)
- Deeds, not creeds (John Loeb)
- A lifetime of service and care (Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.)
- Her own poetics (Judith Nisse Shklar)
- Our lean Galbraithian hero (John Kenneth Galbraith)
- Thou art a wonder gome (Reverend Peter Gomes)
- This singular place
- A class by itself.
- An education: Reaching out
- The act of reading
- Designed to be a genuine community
- A labyrinthine collegiate climb
- Keeping our memory accurate
- Intensity and form (Sydney Freedberg)
- Something luminous (Harry Levin)
- Consequential minds and presences
- Passion as task
- Self-education.