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Though the President's active concern for the quality and influence of religious thought has been a major impetus behind the rebuilding of the Divinity School, it has at times caused friction in a Harvard steeped in religious indifference. The most notable example of this friction was the Memorial Church controversy of 1958, in which, after intense pressure from the Faculty, the Corporation recognized the right of non-Christians to be married in the chapel...
...friction between Harvard College and Harvard University was a major concern of the Redbook, a concern, which might have been the dominant one had the war not intervened. In the late Thirties Harvard students and faculty were expressing increasing dissatisfaction with the role of "specialism" in the College. Several Student Council reports which were later endorsed by the Dean of the College deplored the effects of the free elective system which had been introduced by President Eliot in the latter half of the nineteenth century to initiate Harvard into the research activities of the German universities. As the importance...
...Psychology library underneath Memorial Hall, for example, is maintained as a research library--quite adequate for the teaching staff, but hardly convenient for undergraduates. In consequence, some Soc Rel people forsee friction between the two departments when they move into the Behavioral Sciences Center. Already Memorial Hall has indicated its desire to keep undergraduates out of the Center's common rooms and to lock up all its facilities in the evening. Soc Rel, predictably, wants to give undergraduates free run of the building, day or night. This problem is a simple physical one: space must be allocated in such...
...Faith 7 blasted into the atmosphere, friction set up a curtain of ionization that knocked out communications. While in the ionized layer, Cooper fired small thrusters to make the capsule roll slowly. Once out of the layer, he triggered his drogue parachute by hand at 40,000 ft. His main chute blossomed at 10,000-and he scored his bull's-eye landing off the Kearsarge. Capsule engineers, who constantly complain that astronauts would fly much better if they would just sit back and let their autopilots do the work, ruefully admitted that Cooper proved them wrong. Said...
Raymond Parker's forms float like the volatile gasbags of a dirigible, separated by fractions of space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...