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...reason and logic lofted Harvardian minds to new heights, the school decided to do away with antiquated methods of discipline. Edward Holyoke, class of 1690 and president from 1737-1769, ended the custom of flogging students. More importantly, Holyoke was instrumental in a movement towards valuing merit over social class, planting the seeds of an egalitarian tradition that the University would strive to expand throughout its history...
...chaos did not subside with Harvard’s next president, the ineffectual Edward Everett, class of 1811. “Old Granny,” as students unaffectionately called him, was also killed in effigy in the Yard—this time by hanging. Although Everett was hired to help settle US/Canadian border disputes, he couldn’t settle the unrest in his own university...
...FLOGGING: IT’S NOT OKAY Edward Holyoke, class of 1705, outlawed the practice of flogging students. Finally...
...victory against Penn, a team that itself defeated Princeton early in the day to put Harvard back in the Ivy driver’s seat. Each individual team responded by turning things around. The men’s epee in particular recovered with an 8-1 win, with junior Edward Sherrill and freshman Billy Stallings each going 3-0. “I think we were really eager to show what we could do after the defeat,” said captain and saber fencer Tim Hagamen. “I think we were all pretty upset about...
...theories have sprung up between the extremes of creationism and evolution, among them Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design, but in the 150 years since Wilberforce met Huxley, the controversy has come no closer to even the most uneasy of resolutions. All of this makes the reemergence of aging entomologist Edward O. Wilson a welcome development. Because for Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus in Entomology and author of “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” the apparently insurmountable opposition between scientific inquiry and religious thought evaporates in the face of a common concern...