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...study of the Fine Arts, and indeed of the humanities generally, than a superbly equipped institute near Florence where Americans could come to know at leisure and at first hand a civilization that was in so many respects the cradle of our own. Few things could contribute more to deepen our understanding of European achievements and problems. Americans would be working in close and daily collaboration with scholars from all over the world studying a culture which is one of the greatest achievements of western man. If Mr. Berenson were to leave I Tatti to Harvard, it would present...
What most bothers the Summer Administration is that the enrollment decrease has almost entirely involved Harvard men. And the sagging Harvard enrollment promises to deepen next year, as the College tuition rise makes itself felt. There are good reasons for the Summer School's concern over its dwindling Harvard population. The School looks to the Harvard undergraduate to keep the August honor grade the approximate equal of its February counterpart. Because of its high standards the Summer School is one of the few that the College can justly accredit. But if its future standards slide, Harvard can hardly with...
More often, one incident after another seemed to have been sent by fate to deepen the old wound. Booth got a letter from a sergeant named Corbett, asking for free tickets to a performance. "I am sure you will not refuse," wrote Corbett, "when I tell you that I am the . . . soldier that shot and killed your brother." Booth sent the tickets...
Bombing canals is hard work compared to bombing railroad tracks since the bomb craters are just as likely to improve and deepen, as to injure, a river or canal system...
Such piracies and distortions deepen the responsibility of TIME and other U.S. publications. That responsibility was summed up by President Truman's words reported in the same TIME story from which USA stole the "police-state-greeting" picture: "Our task," said the President later that week, "is to present the truth to the millions of people who are uninformed or misinformed or unconvinced . . . We must make ourselves known as we really are - not as Communist propaganda pictures...