Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should like to see two innovations introduced: first, includsion of five or six outstanding young men and women from the graduating classes of the entire university no more than five years after their graduation. Special attention should be given to those whose fields of endeavor are the arts, philosophy and the life sciences. Second, during the term of office of all Directors of the AHA and members of the Board of Overseers, these elected representatives of Harvard Alumni in their respective roles should annually publish a report of their activities for the University on our--the alumni's--behalf...
LIPSET'S THESIS IS a simple one: political activity is endemic to institutions such as Harvard because of the nature of their intellectual endeavor. Scholarly innovativeness, he writes, engenders certain values which lead in a natural way to political concerns. These values include skepticism about existing knowledge and a universalism that treats all things connected with scholarly pursuit according to impersonal criteria. The academic's skepticism brings him into conflict with the reigning powers in society while his universalism leads the scholar to oppose "those aspects of stratified societies that limit equality of opportunity." Despite the obvious conflicts between scholars...
...some of the eccentricities of Harvard in general and Holworthy in particular, so that we might be spared some of the problems that traditionally beset the ignorant and innocent freshmen. Swanson added that the idea of briefing freshmen was not entirely his own, but was a collective endeavor on the part of The Crimson staff to provide a more realistic picture of life at Harvard than was to be found in the introductory material put out by Harvard itself...
...about high-school kids customizing cars in California--they were the cutting edge of art, not the stuffed-shirts back East. Even when he dealt with the modern art scene, he treated it as an amusing cultural phenomenon, an elaborate set of strange conventions rather than as a serious endeavor. He wrote about mass culture in America and took digs at high culture, and he was a constant target of attacks in The New Yorker. The New York Review of Books and other toney magazines...
...Andrew Beyer is not your normal judge of horseflesh. He is a Harvard man, or at least almost was until he "discovered that the most demanding form of intellectual endeavor exists at the racetrack." The tale of why he failed to get his Harvard degree is a compelling...