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Historians in our society have the awesome and tedious burden of recounting events with accuracy. Handlin, University Professor of History and dean of American historians, has found fault with the work of some of his predecessors and colleagues. Oscar Handlin is a disappointed...
...specific continuing historical issues: The People Make a Nation by Martin W. Sandier, Edwin C. Roswenc and Edward C. Martin delves extensively into such topics as "The Centralization of Power" and ";The Black Looks at Himself." A section on "Founders and Forefathers" includes quotations from John Winthrop to Oscar Handlin...
...Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, and Joseph F. Nye, professor of Government, supported the University's handling of its South Africa-related investments and opposed divestiture...
...Handlin, however, said he opposes divestiture because he believes the mission of the University "is not to perfect an imperfect world, but to pursue and advance learning...
Bryant sits forward in his chair again, always ready to talk shop. He points to the major problem which he will leave the library system--soon to be under Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor. Harvard's tradition of excellence must not be sacrificed to multiplying costs, he insists. "In a library like Harvard's, whose expenditures are much larger than any University in the world, there is a necessity to maintain our commitments to collecting." From a man who first got interested in library work while dissecting German war papers at Stanford's Hoover Institution, this feeling comes...