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...University established the Center in November, 1965, under a $7.2-million bequest from the estate of Annielouise Bliss Warren, widow of Charles Warren '89, member of the Board of Overseers and a distinguished lawyer and legal historian. According to the Center's director, Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, the history department had been considering such a project for a number of years before the gift was made...
These occasional affairs are incidental to the really important--but delayed and indirect--impact the Center hopes to have on Harvard. Any improvement in the higher levels of historical research, such as the Warren Center is now sponsoring, will inevitably filter down to affect undergraduate studies. Handlin points out, however, that the Center is now making a more deliberate effort to improve the quality of teaching in the field of American history--improving the working conditions of junior faculty members--to make Harvard attractive to young historians...
Professor Handlin's answer (which your writer reported with somewhat more accuracy than my question) that Marxist intellectual work is comparable to phlogiston chemistry was entirely predictable. To this it was pointed out that the Marxist intellectual tradition is very much alive and thriving, that contemporary Marxists have a great deal to contribute to the search for truth about society and history, and that one could find without looking too hard a great many fine Marxist thinkers who observed all of the traditional standards of scholarship in their work, and whose presence would do credit to any university...
Professor Handlin's remarks to the effect that intellectual traditions had a way of developing over time, and that such developments at Harvard and in American universities had led in a distinctly non-Marxist (not to say anti-Marxist) direction were more to the point. For it was precisely a serious explanation of such developments in American intellectual life which I sought in my questioning. The Marxist approach stresses social conflict, the primacy of economic life and the role of the common man in the workings of society and in social change. What in American society and in the social...
...Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, countered: "The last time I encountered this argument was from William Buckley, who was complaining about the lack of followers of Adam Smith in the economics department at Yale...