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...FOREMOST AND FIRST, I want to confess a secret admiration for the most maligned group at this College, true scholars. Though too much of my undergraduate career was spent cutting classes (an activity about which I boasted, for reasons that now escape me). I did see enough lectures to know Harvard's oldest heritage is safe for a good many years to come. Stare around; the glorious supernova that was Walter Jackson Bate in our day, and hot ascendant luminary that in Stephen Jay Gould, to name just two. I didn't have the time to write a thesis...
Birch, one of the nation's foremost geo-physicists, yesterday abided by the long standing Harvard tradition of keeping the names of honorary-degree recipients a secret until the moment they are called to receive their diplomas...
...late, it is the rare bird that has seen hide or hair of Roger Tory Peterson, 73. America's foremost birder has been sequestered in his Connecticut studio updating A Field Guide to Western Birds. But with spring's arrival, Peterson ventured south to Texas to lead fellow Bird Experts Victor Emanuel, 41, Ted Parker, 29, and John Roulett, 38, in an effort to break the U.S. record for the most sightings in a 24-hour period. Says Peterson: "I had the best eyes and ears in Texas with me." There are some 550 species in the state...
DIED. William Primrose, 77, world's foremost viola virtuoso whose sweet, pure tone and musicianship raised the viola to the rank of the violin and cello as a solo instrument; in Provo, Utah. The Glasgow-born Primrose was a violin prodigy before he switched to the larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with...
...Testament is not "first and foremost" the story of God's intervention on behalf of an oppressed people, but the account of God's covenant with the Hebrews. When they follow his sometimes bizzare commandments and caprices. God rewards them; when they disobey, he punishes them, often with slavery at the hands of other nations that God is using as instruments of his will. We can perhaps gleam a sense of God's compassion from the following passages...