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...Aldrich '78, said yesterday "it's hard to see the lecturer from the floor and I can't hear as well. There's a major inconvenience...
Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. '57, the author of the Harper's Magazine article "Harvard on the Way Down," received strong criticism from his cousin Alexander Aldrich '50 in a letter released by the University yesterday...
...Aldrich said in his letter that "I had so many specific complaints about his statements, conclusions, impressions, and stylistic mannerisms that I was nearly stupified...
...Aldrich's choice of Cambridge in this epoch belies the apolitical face he presents us. Not only was there an abundance of exuberant self-confidence in those years, but the student body was tip-top as well, all boys of good blood and fine manners, up from Eton and Harrow or straight from their private tutors. Back then, you simply did not have to trouble yourself with great numbers of people less confident then you, people like the sons of workers, or women, or the other outsiders referred to in England as "Wogs." They must eave been grand old days...
What is sad about "Harvard on the Way Down" is that Aldrich is not completely off-base. Harvard is in many respects like the real world, or at least like the real world found on Capitol Hill and Wall Street and in other places where this country is programmed. For better or worse, many Harvard graduates make their way into postions of power, so an analysis of Harvard's existence and ethos could help explain why the United States is the way it is today. But that analysis will have to be written by someone, unlike Aldrich, who understands Harvard...