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...strong feelings of ideological superiority hadn’t ceased to exist. While American delegates were chosen on the basis of academic merit, the Soviet delegates were chosen largely on the basis of their allegiance to the USSR and ability to champion Soviet political ideals, according to former Davis Center for Eurasian Studies Associate Director Professor Marshall I. Goldman. “The University went out of its way to insist that participants in the exchange did not have anything to do with the CIA or the State Department,” Marshall said, adding that the Russian government used...
...body my house has a soul—I hope,” Berenson once wrote.When Berenson died in October of 1959, at the age of 94, he bequeathed his estate, along with his library and art collection, to Harvard in the hopes that I Tatti would become a center of humanistic learning where younger scholars could come conduct research and encounter new ideas. And since it was first given to Harvard in 1959, Berenson’s Villa has become just that—an institutionalized arcadia that offers a small community of scholars the opportunity to nourish themselves...
Fifty years after graduating, David S. Rosenthal ’59 still spends his weekdays in the Square, decorates his walls with Harvard posters, and regularly eats lunch with College students. But now instead of finishing his math problem sets, he bides his time in the Holyoke Center working as the director of Harvard University Health Services. When Rosenthal first moved into Harvard Yard, he was unsure if he wanted to be a doctor at all. It would take the death of a close friend to convince Rosenthal to pursue a career in medicine. Instead, upon moving into his Thayer...
...Nelson strove to keep students informed and involved in campus events, using the newspaper to create what he calls “a center of discussion in that pre-internet age.” The crest of controversy during his tenure came with The Crimson’s coverage of Reverend George A. Buttrick’s refusal to allow Jewish services in Memorial Church. The Crimson ran a letter from Univeristy President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 supporting the Reverend’s decision, as well as editorials disapproving of Pusey and Butrick’s stance...
...than the logistics of the visit was what it represented. Democracy, U.S. foreign policy, and the future of a nation were brought into question. Taking these manifold concerns and questions in stride, Harvard welcomed with open arms the arrival of Fidel Castro: revolutionary, liberator, and, for one night, the center of campus life.After a guerrilla campaign, the young Cuban leader had defeated then-President Fulgencio Batista’s forces and ousted the dictatorial government in January of that year. By March of 1959, Castro had accepted an invitation to speak at the American Society of Newspaper Editors?...