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...op’s radical reputation as a hotbed of leftist political activists didn’t come about until the late 1960s, according to Amelia G. H. Kaplan ’96-’97, who wrote her senior thesis on the history...
...Global cooling was the big threat in the 1960s,” medieval history professor Michael McCormick said recently, highlighting the dangers of structuring a curriculum around current concerns...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn’t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...
...expansion of the University in all directions has had three other worrisome effects. They have made many departments more heterogeneous (mine, in the 1950s and 1960s, was largely a group of political philosophers and historians; now there are two groups: the tribe of traditional humanists, and a new one of would-be scientists, who apply mathematical economic methods to subjects that can still best be understood by looking at history, anthropology, and psychology). Also, everyone is overworked in a country in which, unlike in France, no bill of rights recognizes each citizen’s entitlement to rest and leisure...
...hard truth is that it's been 40 years since we have led a sustainable effort to fight for economic justice in this country. We had many successes and failures in the 1960s, but we've forgotten the most important lesson: in order to end poverty you have to make it a priority. Well, if Moses was able to find the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert, then certainly we can renew the cause after wandering...