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Cohen is a superior scholar and his case studies make for stimulating reading. Particularly noteworthy are the chapters on 17th century figures including an especially pleasing section on Vesalius, Paracelsus and Harvey. The chapters on Darwin and Freud, and the saga of sea floor spreading, a revolution in earth science, are also splendidly wrought, commendable for their cogency and conciseness. Cohen's analysis focuses on revolutionary significance, but he simultaneously yields a wealth of stimulating narrative history...
...moved to the Houses sophomore year and selected our fields of concentration. I was lucky enough to stumble on History and Literature. It was there that I found the 17th century, that yeasty and tumultuous period with more than a superficial resemblance to our own times. Times B. Conant '14 succeeded A. Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's President in our junior year, but I regret to say most of us didn't notice the difference. Our lives and digestions were probably more affected by the repeal of Prohibition at approximately the same time...
...midweek the crew, wearing surgical masks to reduce the danger of possible infection, had managed by using vacuum cleaners to clear the air and get on with the major business of the 17th shuttle flight: conducting scientific experiments in the Spacelab. The two physicians aboard observed and tended to the rat and monkey menagerie, checking the animals' reaction to weightlessness and looking for clues to the space sickness that has plagued many astronauts during their first few days in space. Meanwhile, two physicists and a chemical engineer were busy on projects ranging from shooting pictures of the auroras and growing...
...protest today--thousands of students and workers--because Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere." We assemble on the 17th anniversary of Dr. King's death to honor his prescient insistence that American business leave South Africa and to call forth the power of his faith and vision and courage in a movement to end a policy which implicates all of us in savagery and shameful actions, a policy that spills blood in our name...
...Harvard 17th at NCAAs...