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...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of Black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...
...crest of Boston's Beacon Hill, a bronze monument portrays Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in their assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863--a battle that cost the young aristocrat and nearly a hundred of his troops their lives. When the Union army asked for his body, a Confederate officer replied, "We have buried him with his niggers." Shaw's sacrifice--memorialized by the poet James Russell Lowell as a "death for noble ends"--has become an emblem of the lofty idealism that inspired New England's 19th...
DIED. MORTON GOULD, 82, versatile composer; in Orlando, Florida. A child prodigy--Just Six was composed when he was just six--Gould drew heavily on American themes and music in pieces like Fall River Legend, the Lizzie Borden ballet for Agnes de Mille, and in compositions rooted in idioms as diverse as jazz, folk music and marching bands. He won a Pulitzer for Stringmusic, commissioned by the National Symphony...
Philosophy 192: "Thinking About Thinking," taught by Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick, Frank-furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, tied with Historical Study B-46: "The Darwinian Revolution," taught by Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, for the final spot
...STEVEN JAY GOULD'S BOOK WONDERful Life, which described the strangeness of early fossils, was fascinating, your update of new scientific findings is more so. It not only adds pieces to this intriguing puzzle but also goes one step further: making an analogy between the events of the Cambrian explosion and the characteristics of a chaotic system. In so doing, you raise a disturbing question: Might not theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman's idea of the intrinsic instability of the evolving system be greatest when the gradient of change is at its steepest? If so, is the closing paragraph of your...