Word: adamses
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Even Adams's description of the propionate character of Harvard['s intellectual ideal seems certainly appropriate for 1954-58, it may have been it led some in later decades to courtier the "apathetic 50s.
Still, the differences between Adams's Harvard and ours seem enormous. Despite, the supposed apathy, there was a great deal of passion. And, unlike Adam's experience, it seemed to me that many of the upheavals in later years were the unsurprising extension of things we encountered at Harvard. The...
"Harvard College as far as it educated at all, was a mind and liberal school." Adams wrote. "Leaders of men it never tried to make. Its ideals were altogether different. Unitarian clergy had given to the College a character of moderation, balance, judgement, restraint....Four years of Harvard College, if...
Most of all, there were one's tears. David Halberstam was pursuing then-Dean McGeorge Bundy with the same instructive ferocity he displayed a little later in bringing the war home from Vietnam. Archibald MacLeish was the Faculty post-in-residence, but Gregory Corso was holding forth on the street...
By coincidence, Henry Adams--his quasi-autobiography. "The Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a...