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...world, engendered by the memories of emigres, for the dazzling colors in the humid warmth--halls, monuments and lawns arising from a deluge in which European civilization would have perished. At Harvard, white and blue bulbous bell-towers of the dormitories, with their splendor comparable to English chateaux, the Anthenian or Napoleonic-styled libraries, the trees sprayed with D.D.T. every week, Memorial Hall (which is a miniature Westminster), all appear to have been constructed to reassure young Americans of the existence of a past there is not American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard: A Convent of the New Middle Ages? | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

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