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...differed from Reagan’s blatant appeal to human greed and senile values—others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year. If 1980 becomes engraved in history books as a milestone, let it be known not as one in the nation’s move to the right, but as one for the Democratic Party: the year in which...
...wonder, sometimes, if there are many people at Harvard who would do the same.The phrase, and idea, of being a “citizen of the world,” has some pretty deep historical roots, but among the more renowned references is from the fourth inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. “We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the global community,” the weary president said in the waning days of the Second World War. “We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said...
Galbraith was a resident tutor in Winthrop House from 1935 to 1937. In 1939, he left the University when his contract was not renewed, instead teaching at Princeton University and the University of California and working with the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Galbraith he returned to Harvard in 1948. He was offered tenure just one year later...
Last June, class marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05 told The Crimson that the Harvard administration advised the Senior Class Committee to avoid selecting speakers who might offend older Class Day attendees. Some speculated that the choice of NBC news anchor Tim Russert for last year’s Class Day speaker may have been a reaction to the choice of Cohen the year before. Every Class Day speaker beginning in 2002 had been a comedian before Russert was selected...
...what she calls a "cheap and blatant political ploy," she should remember that Republicans are masters at exploiting divisive issues that rile single-issue voters on the right and get them to the polls. Richard Oliver Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Catalan Pride on the Pitch I was disappointed by Franklin Foer's essay about European football, "Homage to Catalonia" [May 22]. Foer said that over the years, his view of the Barcelona club "has grown ever more romantic," owing to its anti-Franco traditions. If he was willing to link football with politics and religion, he should have written...