The Missionary Position
Posted on January 7th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
With a choir singing away in the background, Drew Faust narrates a YouTube slideshow of her trip to South Africa.
Her “hopes for Africa”? To “work with partners…to use our educational strengths…in ways that can have an impact and make a difference.” Bold stuff.
That said, it does look like a nice place to visit.
6 Responses
1/7/2024 4:06 pm
Bold stuff indeed, if “stuff” is a euphemism. Of course, it’s just a PR video but the Harvard administration’s reaction to the AIDS-related grant that HSPH received (the one LHS got apoplectic about) is still too recent to permit me to listen to DF’s remarks without wincing.
1/8/2024 9:07 pm
Has someone told the Harvard President that Africa is a continent and not a country? South Africa is one of the countries in the continent.
1/8/2024 9:09 pm
sorry richard, in this case it is the woman on top.
1/8/2024 11:51 pm
The Apartheid museum is quite incredible. Some the the Museums images
can be seen in the book called “House of Bondage” 1967 by Ernest Cole and Tom Flaherty. The reality depicted is not for those with a weak stomach
1/9/2024 10:34 am
How odd to see the President standing alone in those pictures. Pictures of her stating with some of her hosts in South Africa would have better matched her stated goals to work with partners in that country. It is nice to hear that the President demonstrates that she believes Harvard needs to connect with other places in the world. Hopefully she is receiving good advice on sensible ways to do this -i.e. avoiding the missionary position.
1/14/2010 7:53 am
It is not the critic who counts; not the person who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.