Leaders of men?
Our society already provides enough incentives, including financial ones, for college graduates not to take risks. The concept of leadership that we accept ought not further pave the road to inaction.
Our society already provides enough incentives, including financial ones, for college graduates not to take risks. The concept of leadership that we accept ought not further pave the road to inaction.
For those of us who do see the good in marriage — a majority of college students, based on the most recent statistics — it’s time to stop listening to the frivolous ethical accusations against Justice Clarence Thomas and Ginni Thomas or Dr. George Will GS ’68 and Mari Maseng Will just because they share a last name and a line of work.
The calls for government involvement point towards a disturbing, and increasingly prevalent, mindset. Government is not the solution for anything we don’t like in our lives, and especially not for problems that government itself actually created.
Take a foreign language. Study what you love, but figure out what you want to do with yourself at the end of four years and be prepared to do it. Fiercely guard your free time. Sleep. Eat. Exercise. Soak up every minute of this beautiful campus and the people here.
Dickinson, McCosh, Pyne, Fine, Hibben, and even Madison and Wilson — These names are reminders of decisions, mistakes, and achievements spanning over 250 years. We ought to more fully seize our tradition and history as what makes our school, and every school, a unique place.