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...World War II, which in turn affected Harvard in unprecedented ways. Particularly, the pleasant, calm and noncompetitive atmosphere combined with the prospect of a guaranteed safe and prosperous future, which had dominated Harvard for more than a century, were vanishing at a fast pace and being replaced by the gloom of a rough and uncertain future...
...healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found a rumination that cheered me greatly. The particular expert being quoted was Bill Gates. "Men and women are worried that their own jobs will become obsolete...that economic upheaval...
...hoopla at Harvard over Wilson's well-publicized defection--and the corresponding gloom at Chicago--is a hallmark of how far black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers...
Harvard does offer these romantics some alternatives in hope of alleviating their gloom. A "No Valentine?--Laugh It Off" event is being held at Loker Commons, for instance...
Weather-related effects are not the only factors involved with the winter gloom. After all, the gray skies are accompanied by the end-of-semester blues...