It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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