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...Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, the senior class’ first marshal, opened and closed the event with a speaking style that came from his time preaching at his church while in high school, according to his roommate Matthew K. Clair...
...there are designated sexual harassment officers who can counsel victims and guide them through the formalities of addressing their grievances.“I do think it’s a good process,” said Director of the Harvard College Women’s Center Susan B. Marine, who is currently the designated officer for undergraduates. “I’ve seen it work before and I think it was manageable for the students involved.”But since Marine became the designated officer in January, no undergraduate has come to her regarding sexual harassment.Putnam...
...Recognizing clubs that excluded women was not a viable option for a university in the process of fully merging with its neighboring women’s college, Radcliffe. According to former Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. ’59, severing ties with the clubs was an important part of fully integrating Radcliffe and Harvard, a process that was essentially complete by 1977—though the President of Radcliffe still signed women’s diplomas until...
...special. Harvard, after all, is a trade school for the craft of thinking, and its students are no more than a privileged class of apprentices who mimic the techniques, manners, and values of their masters. Filling out a Selective Service registration form, the great essayist and country farmer E. B. White wrestled over what to enter for his primary job. “Physically I am better fitted for writing than for farming,” White wrote of the situation, “because farming takes great strength and endurance. Intellectually I am better fitted for farming than...
Willow Run, almost on the edge of Ann Arbor, Mich., was built not by GM but by Ford, opening in April 1942. From the start, its job was to turn out B-24 bombers, the workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported...