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...didn't understand what kind of deep emotions we had touched." Nelson now says, The president's letter ushered in "a very stormy period." Auchincloss recalls "fierce denunciation of the chaplain." Students protested, and 16 professors--including Arthur M Schlesinger '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith--expressed their objections to Pusey in a hand-delivered letter. Ultimately, Harvard's corporation reversed the church's policy...
Friends at other colleges have asked me to describe my greatest disappointment at Harvard. To their suprise (and dismay), it is not the lack of contact with big name professors. (I actually had lunch with Galbraith three years ago). For me, the greatest disappointment has been the facility with which some students dismiss others, the degree to which convenience regulates relationships for so many people here. What disturbs me most, though, is when I see myself doing the same...
While the two barbers are used to distinguished customers they make no distinctions between patrons. "I take pride in giving a haircut to anyone. Not just a famous person like Kennedy or Galbraith, because everybody is going to be somebody someday," says D'Alleva...
...books, which tend to degenerate into a string of unrelated, if interesting, incidents, Tuchman binds the four examples together with common factors. Starting with the original Laocoon, a citizen of Troy who felt that various natural phenomena promised doom, Tuchman goes on to find modern-day Laocoons. John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. and McGeorge Bundy. Moreover, each instance of folly described by Tuchman builds on the one before it: modern leaders repeat--and expand--the mistakes of their predecessors...
Finally, Harvard announced this week that Associate Professor of Economics Andrew B. Abel won the 1984 "Graduates Award for Good Teaching in Economics." The $5.000 award was established nine years ago by Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith to encourage good teaching for graduate students...