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...Revolution identified the worker, like his machinery, with the job. Voltaire crystallized the sentiments of the arrivistes: "Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors." His was a romantic ideal, however: only in America were immigrants truly unhooked from history. In his classic study The Uprooted, Oscar Handlin observed: "The immigrants could not impose their own ways upon society; but neither were they constrained to conform to those already established. To a significant degree, the newest Americans had a wide realm of choice...
Drink to U. Profs Freund, Handlin, Reischauer...
...Oscar Handlin, Daniel Bell...
Over 160,000 men and women have matriculated over the years--1000 have received degrees--to hear Harvard greats ranging from philosopher Josiah Royce at the turn of the century to Oscar Handlin in the present. Most people are surprised to even learn that the school exists, says Thomas Crooks, former director of the Summer School. "Except for some flurry on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center at registration time, a few lights on in Yard classrooms at night, and the Commencement Exercises, the program is largely invisible," he says...
Died. Mary Handlin, 62, social historian who, with her husband Oscar, a professor of history at Harvard, was coauthor of six books on American civilization; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. The Handlins in The Dimensions of Liberty (1961) explored the idea of freedom as defined in the U.S. In Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History (1971), they traced the patterns of relationships within the American family, spanning 300 years, and concluded that the continually advancing age at which young people leave home has unfortunate consequences for everyone involved...