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Eventually, he came to love his English classes, particularly one in his senior year called “Modern Poets” taught by Edwin Honig. In that course he came to appreciate Wallace Stevens, who, Updike learned, hailed from the same Pennsylvanian county...
Today's college kids were quite young when Reagan was President, but thanks to YAF, ISI and the Leadership Institute--all helmed by Reaganites--the former President has an outsize presence on campus. Former Reagan officials Edwin Meese III (Reagan's second Attorney General), Jeane Kirkpatrick (his first U.N. ambassador) and Bay Buchanan (his first Treasurer) have all spoken on college campuses through YAF, and Reagan's son Michael raises money for the group. In 1998 it purchased the Reagans' old ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and now brings 1,000 students there every year to bask in Reaganiana (look...
...said Crimson coach Frank Sullivan following this year’s loss. “Not only the most heartbreaking loss of the season, but in a while.” Harvard led 59-53 with 1:16 to play before a layup from Tigers guard Edwin Buffmire set up a withering full court press. Freshman point guard Drew Housman tried launching the ball to senior center Brian Cusworth, but a midair collision led to a turnover and a three from guard Scott Greenman to make it 59-58. With the ref’s whistles pocketed, more contact...
...were gaining increasing influence in American life were looking on the University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes of the Korean War.The popular press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting a notorious member of the U.S. Communist Party to appear on campus to propagandize innocent undergraduates. A Cambridge City Councilman, Edward...
...note at the beginning of the original edition of “Inherit the Wind,” which premiered in 1955, states explicitly that the Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play is not history. Sure, names were changed, characters had been added, and I had to admit that Clarence Darrow, whom I had idolized, was probably not nearly as dashing as Spencer Tracy, but the plot itself stayed relatively true to the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play...