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Openmindedness about Genesis can cause problems at Harvard. Dwight Fletcher '79, who has started a Christian athletes discipleship group with his roommate Steve Brannan '79, says he occasionally found George Wald's lectures in Nat. Sci. 5, "The Nature of Living Things," offensive. "During one of his lectures last year he said God didn't create man, but man created God. I hissed him when he said that, but then immediately I felt bad about doing...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: By the Book: Fundamentalist Christians at Harvard | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

True. Not the least remarkable aspect of Crosby's career was that once it waxed big in the early 1930s, it never waned. He aroused unusual affection in his public. Bing outstripped both General Dwight Eisenhower and President Harry Truman in one popularity poll of the late 1940s. Any one of a variety of casual nicknames-Der Bingle, Old Dad, the Groaner-was enough to identify him in a newspaper headline. In a cartoon his image could be evoked with merely a nonchalant tilted smile, or by one of the pipes or hats or gaudy sports shirts he affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet Singer For All Seasons | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...chair will not be filled for at least ten years because nobody is currently qualified to fill a professorship in Korean Studies, Dwight Perkins, chairman of the Department of Economics and director of the chair, said earlier this year...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Koreans Stall on Grant to Columbia | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

President Dwight Eisenhower, for whom Roberts provided a man-made fishing pond on the club's par-three course. It was there, near the third tee, that Roberts took his own life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...decision to come to Harvard was particularly welcome this year because he can help fill the gap left by Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, who is on leave this year, Dwight Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, said yesterday...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Well-Known Economist To Teach | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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