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...after two straight losses to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from...
...that they have given to Harvard and for what each of them has given so generously to me—advice, wisdom, support. I am touched by the greetings from staff, faculty, students, alumni, universities, from our honorable Governor, and from the remarkable John Hope Franklin, who has both lived and written history. I am grateful to the community leaders from Boston and Cambridge who have come to welcome their new neighbor. I am a little stunned to see almost every person that I am related to on earth sitting here in the first four rows. And I would like...
...spring of his senior year of high school, Marco A. Morales had to make a choice between a number of excellent schools. One was the historically elite and notoriously expensive Harvard, with its total cost per year surpassing $41,000 in 2007. Another was the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, where every accepted student is offered a scholarship that completely covers tuition. Morales, whose family would have been unable to pick up the tab for four years of college without financial aid, ultimately forwent the ivy-laden gates of Harvard Yard and now—surprisingly—pays...
Fielding a mostly freshman squad, the men’s and women’s cross country teams ran strong through the heat and dust in Saturday’s New England Cross Country Championships held at Franklin Park in Boston. The standout performer for Harvard was senior Christopher Green, who finished sixth overall in the men’s race, leading the men’s squad to a 17th-place finish. In the women’s race, freshman Meghan Houser took 41st place, with the Crimson women finishing 17th as well. Both teams had to fight through...
...would not have thought it possible to write about the role of the President's spouse without mentioning the remarkable partnership forged between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. But I guess that would have spoiled your simplified story line reporting an orderly progression of liberation from then to now. Dick Scott Stanford, Calif...