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Gergen says he believes Summers first began to entertain the possibility of resignation in the days following the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting...
...Institute of Politics, Dems, Republicans, and any other group committed to political engagement. At the risk of sounding cynical, I didn’t see the point of entering into political debate. It seemed that no one ever changed their minds, and until people were truly willing to actively entertain an alternative viewpoint, what would be the point of arguing with them...
...different,” Gates recalls. “The first beer party that I ever attended was as a 17-year-old and was at Harvard, at Memorial Hall. They even hired a strip tease artist to perform for us.”While Harvard provided strippers to entertain their male undergraduates in the 1950s, Harvard House Masters strictly regulated how men entertained women in the dormitories. For the Class of 1956, parietals—the hours when women were allowed in male dormitories—restricted how they interacted with the opposite sex. According to the rules, women...
...Kamin on two accounts, two remain.11/5: The chem department hopes to exapand the Mallinckrodt lab in the spring. A week later, it was announced that Lamont will stay open until midnight. 11/16: The divinity school projects an enrollment high of 300. A student petition for extended parietals hours to entertain women in the Houses met flat rejection by the Faculty Administrative Board the day before.1/19: Yale beats Harvard football, 21-7. A week later, the Medical School receives grant of million dollars in unrestricted finds from the Commonwealth Fund.12/1: Dunster wins the first inter-house debate as judges split...
...that govern our daily lives and limit our capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement speakers...