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These mumblings are not only inadequate but lamentably unimaginative. The Cheever Report's emphasis upon preserving extant balances within Harvard utterly failed to explain why the status quo should be considered ideal and showed no conception of ways in which Federal aid might be used to create new and more flexible patterns of learning and research. The rising stars of American educations, such as Brekeley and Michigan, are reaching greatness by effective use of government, are reaching greatness by effective use of government support. If Harvard intends to eschew such innovation, it must think ahead with sufficient clarity to vince...
Next week the Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition of an historic row of bookshops along Cornhill in downtown Boston. The Oldest extant book store in America, browsing ground of Emerson, the elder Homes, and Whittier, will yield to a new Government Center. And while a few citizens struggle to maintain some evidences of the past, the rest of Boston stands idly...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition next week of the historic book shop row along Cornhill between Scollay Square and Fanueil Hall in downtown Boston. The buildings now slated for eventual destruction include the Brattle Book Shop, formerly Closeworthy's, the oldest extant book store in America...
...language has a literature worth reading, Harvard should teach it. If a language is interesting structurally or historically, Harvard should teach it; very properly, Harvard has a course in Gothic, which has only one extant text, because it is important linguistically. If a language is useful for scholarly research, Harvard should teach it; for example, Dutch (which Harvard doesn't teach) is invaluable for students of Fine Arts. And Harvard should teach living languages, so that its graduates may communicate with other men. This last is clearly the broadest and loosest criterion. Plainly, since even teaching all the living tongues...
...belonging to him, in a Connecticut house -also called Strawberry Hill-crammed with Walpole letters, manuscripts, portraits, bibelots and books. And beyond writing intimately and appreciatively of him in this book, Lewis has edited the great Yale edition-which ran to 14 volumes-of Walpole's 4,000 extant letters. The large, expertly annotated volumes perforce lack one quality suited to their subject, companionableness, as their ivied academic air disputes, perhaps, Walpole's central statement: "There is not only no knowledge of the world out of a great city, but no decency, no practicable society-I had almost...