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Laudable as this may be it raises difficult problems. One stems from an author's bias which colors his attempt to find the common denominator of whatever he is discussing. This is particularly serious at Harvard whose diversity is notorious, and "317" hardly escapes its effects. Whoever wrote the freshman section, for instance, painted a lugubrious picture of innocent first year men grinding away over their books, never realizing how little work is necessary to secure a degree. While this is accurate for some, there are many whose experience was different and therefore to whom this section will mean nothing...
Like Remington and Russell, Leigh is crazy over horses. And he has a true Westerner's bias in favor of the working breed. "As for those tired old nags at the rodeo," says he, "they don't know the first thing about bucking." No one could say that about Leigh's recently painted range horse (opposite). "Like a bolt of lightning," as Leigh himself describes it, "the wily equine flies into the air with a volcanic suddenness-with a fantastic violence and rabid spleen that defy description...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R.Wis) charges Conant with religious bias on the basis of a speech he delivered in Boston last spring, which supposedly attacked Catholic parochial schools. Actually Conant explained, he objects only to public tax money being given to private schools...
...Kaufman, who told the Rosenbergs, when he sentenced them: "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed." Although the judge, the prosecutor and the chief Government witnesses were Jews, the Communists shrieked that the Rosenbergs were convicted because of anti-Semitic bias. The Reds, as usual, succeeded in mobilizing some non-Reds to help. Atomic Chemist Harold Urey wrote to Judge Kaufman that he "found the testimony of the Rosenbergs more believable than that of the Greenglasses...
...World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object to some of your fundamental conclusions...