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 GIAMATTIMajor sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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