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...three Harvard historians, Oscar Handlin, John Clive, and John Womack, Jr., want to deny the obvious (Crimson., Nov. 14). Professor Clive's reasons are especially striking: he asserts "that America's tremendous technological capacity makes any comparisons between the United States and Rome meaningless." Also, "One sure indication that America is not declining is that more and more people are reading Gibbon...
Harvard professors contacted by The Crimson yesterday disagreed with Pelikan's analysis. Oscar Handlin, University Professor, said he does not believe American suffers from a failure of nerve. "We show all the signs and problems of a society still on the ascent," Handlin said...
Courses of Instruction, like the world it portrays, changes little from year to year, but in one respect the 1975-1976 edition embodies a near-revolutionary change. Professors and lecturers alike are listed by name only, Oscar Handlin (Pforzheimer University Professor) taking his place beside Orest M. Subtelny (Lecturer on History) without the distinction of his title. This move towards egalitarianism in the faculty has been loudly deplored by a number of senior professors who worked hard for tenure, and may be reconsidered in time for next year's edition...
...difference is clear in this year's topics. The Harvard alumni college offered a session called "Four American Centuries," with Professors Donald H. Fleming, Bernard Ballyn, Frank B. Freidel, Oscar Handlin. Stephan A. Thernstrom, and Stephen W. Botein '63--Dele Simmonds '52, a Radcliffe alumna who attended the session, says the saw three of their names mentioned in the New York Times during the week before she came. The second session was "devoted to a provocative look at controversial issues in the area of science and medicine," the brochure says, with Professors Everett I. Mendelsohn, Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and lectures...
...great irony is that Handlin continues. "Undergraduates don't realize that there's something personal missing." We don't realize? This lack is a daily disappointment to students. I hear complaints every day; it may be the biggest problem here...