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...reality for most undergraduates, Kamin, a graduate student employed by the Harvard Corporation as a teaching fellow, was vulnerable to the Red Scare.“McCarthy maintained that he was not investigating Harvard, but that since his committee franchise included oversight of defense plants and Harvard accepted research grants from the Department of Defense, Harvard was in effect a defense plant—and I was an employee of Harvard,” wrote Kamin.‘RABID ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNIST’“What brought it into more intense focus than it might have ever...
...until midnight. 11/16: The divinity school projects an enrollment high of 300. A student petition for extended parietals hours to entertain women in the Houses met flat rejection by the Faculty Administrative Board the day before.1/19: Yale beats Harvard football, 21-7. A week later, the Medical School receives grant of million dollars in unrestricted finds from the Commonwealth Fund.12/1: Dunster wins the first inter-house debate as judges split on verdict. Sanitary engineers begin with an investigation today to determine the cause of a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbance.12/2: The union closes to freshman following a fire causing...
...graduation day--pomp, circumstance and a speech by the highest-wattage star on whom the university can grant an honorary degree. Competition for the big-name orators can start years in advance (Bill Cosby can't be everywhere at once). Students may not care, but the spectacle is really for the day's true heroes: the parents. Herewith a sampling of this season's spiels...
...thunder of movement; the noise is stretched thin over a violence beneath, barely restrained. Sometimes in the lull at the end of the school day, when the triumphant, jeering racket of departure has subsided and only the students doing extracurricular activities remain in the great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps him from drugs and vice, though it also holds him rather aloof from his classmates and the studies...
...somewhat more human process may eventually grant John Paul another notable title: The Great. He was already endowed with the title "Magnus" by Rome's La Sapienza University in 2003, while top Vatican Cardinals and even Benedict himself have repeatedly referred to him as "Il Grande" Pope John Paul II. There is no official Vatican procedure for bestowing the title, explained Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican correspondent for Il Giornale daily. "It's something that becomes invested over time," he said. So for the most impassioned followers of the Polish pontiff, there is nothing holding you back from calling him John...