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...HARVARD HOOLIGANS,” blared the Boston Herald on its Nov. 22 front page, two days after the lamest and tamest Harvard-Yale tailgate since 1944, when there was no fucking tailgate. (It’s true! We may have coddled high-ranking Nazis in the 1930s, but when World War II rolled around, our boys were on the front lines—or, err, somewhere near the front lines. We’d heard about those front lines, that’s for sure...
Crimson pride may be in ample supply these days. But in the 1930s, Harvard did not have much to be proud of. At a time when it could have been a voice of moral and intellectual responsibility in America, our university played a role in legitimizing the Nazi regime. Today, in the face of growing evidence to this effect, the administration still refuses to apologize for or even acknowledge its predecessors’ complicity. This is not only an affront to the Jewish community. The administration’s silence shames...
...administration must acknowledge where Harvard went wrong in the 1930s, honor those students who did right, and offer an immediate apology to the Jewish community and all those with families that were decimated by the Nazi regime. And Harvard must recognize its international moral responsibility in its current and future decisions, for its past “neutrality” has only helped the tyrants of the world...
DIED. IRIS CHANG, 36, historian whose landmark 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; a suicide; near Los Gatos, Calif. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching...
Everett started the Harvard Jazz Band program in 1971, a time when fusion jazz was favored over the traditional jazz of the 1930s. He was surprised that Harvard did not have an organized jazz band, and believed that jazz had a great social, economic, as well as music influence on American culture. He emphasized that improvisation is what unites all of jazz and that it is a “point of personality or vocabulary...