Our Next Chapter
Harvard Crimson |Michael Y. Cheng ‘22
Former head of the Undergraduate Counsel publishes his resignation letter in The Crimson. “I was elected on the signature promise of dissolving and replacing the Undergraduate Council. Since that’s been fulfilled, I must step aside so we can turn to our next chapter…It’s time to focus on the future that you voted for.”
The piece reviews Cheng’s journey from running on a platform to dissolve the UC and succeeding, concluding with powerful words by Harvard’s William James:
“I leave you with a quote from ‘The True Harvard,’ a 1903 speech by Harvard philosopher William James: ‘As a nursery for independent and lonely thinkers I do believe that Harvard still is in the van. Here they find the climate so propitious that they can be happy in their very solitude. The day when Harvard shall stamp a single hard and fast type of character upon her children, will be that of her downfall. Our undisciplinables are our proudest product. Let us agree together in hoping that the output of them will never cease.’
