Word: cantor
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...Cantor did not himself participate in the struggle in the Yard. He was already on probation for sitting in at a Faculty meeting to consider whether Reserve Office Training Corps should remain on campus. Cantor, a veteran anti-war “poster-maker,” protested outside of University Hall rather than risk expulsion...
...Whatever was happening in the world was happening right there in front of you day to day. Your life was in the balance. Some of that was fictional,” Cantor admits. “Your life really wasn’t in the balance...but you felt like...
There was a sense, Cantor remembers, that students, as individuals, were capable of enacting great change...
That idea was a relatively universal one and not confined to Harvard. The self-importance of the radical students was similarly widespread. However, Harvard itself injects its students with an ego-booster shot that is not necessarily negative, Cantor argues...
...Although Cantor grew up in Great Neck, where almost all children attend public schools, his mother insisted that he enroll at Horace Mann in New York City. “I think my mother had read somewhere in the Talmud that there must always be a better school somewhere,” he explains...