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Dean Epps' breathtaking essay entitled, "The Uses of Diversity," provides a most chilling historical account of past Harvard presidents' concerns about race relations at this school. Surprisingly, it pretty much says that everyone from Nathan Pusey, who served as president in the 19th century, to current president Neil L. Rudenstine has addressed race relations. Congrats, guys. Let's keep up the tradition for years to come. Address it, write an essay or two and pass the legacy on. Harvard is all about legacy anyway...
...That essay, adapted from a letter sent to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation, explains why Harvard should not have an ethnic studies program...
...thought I made clear in my essay ("Gomes' Confederate Memorial Proposal Succeeds in Forgiveness But Fails in Reciprocity," February 12), I don't quite have an answer to this query, though Jeffrey Vanke seems to have read my essay as if I was offering a firm answer. What I was presenting was a way of searching for an answer. For this, to my mind, was the major flaw in Rev. Peter Gomes' formulations: he merely asserts an answer or solution---ex cathedra--without showing us the interplay of moral and operational steps. In Professor Gomes' view, it ought...
MICHAEL KINSLEY, who for years played terrier to Pat Buchanan's pit bull on CNN's Crossfire, examines the Buchanan presidential run in this week's Essay. "It's weird to find myself punditizing about Pat instead of against him," Kinsley says. "During our Crossfire years I watched Buchanan's views on some subjects--foreign policy and free trade, especially--change dramatically. But one thing about Pat is that he holds his opinions with total conviction and intensity, even if they're the opposite of the views he held with similar intensity and conviction the day before." Kinsley recently exiled...
...being constantly judged and evaluated. While evaluation and judgement are essential to maintain standards in scholarly life, some students are devastated by their application. Yet as we saw earlier, many seek more challenge and the exacting vision of scholars. Indeed one might ask whether the problems discussed in this essay would recede if the college were more clearly centered in its academic mission, and thus more different from society...