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Like everything else at Harvard, the two cultures of romanticism and realism have roots in the past. The doctrine of the preprofessionals is a recapitulation of the harsh imperatives of the Mather brothers, increase and Cotton, whose fire-and-brimstone Puritanism set a precedent for perseverence along the path of industrious virtue. Henry Adams did not attend law school, but his description of his education here is now heard repeated every day while passing through the streets of Harvard Square: "Harvard College, as far as it educated at all, was a mild and liberal school, which sent young men into...
...Japan government should have kept out in terms of trying to interfere with my discussing openly in the United States. The letter reminded me of something written by a pre-World War II bureaucrat to an underling. It was harsh and imperious," Cohen said yesterday...
...Defense Departments and some Congressmen. It falls well short of the blanket postwar amnesty that past Presidents extended, and few were rushing to accept it until they could figure out just how it would be administered. If in practice the leniency stressed by Ford prevails over the fairly harsh provisions of the plan, many exiles may return. If the plan is rigidly applied, relatively...
...problem of equity too for the many men who sought status as conscientious objectors and would have served 24 months in alternate work, but were denied that classification by local draft boards. To ask them to take menial jobs now, when they have acquired careers and families, seems harsh. Many also became fugitives before the Supreme Court, in June 1970, broadened the definition of conscientious objector to embrace persons resisting service on ethical rather than purely religious grounds. In addition, many draft evaders have received short or suspended sentences from compassionate judges and face no job requirement at all. Draft...
...telecast in the new season's first week. A chilling exposition of life in a juvenile detention home, the two-hour-long show featured a powerful performance by Actress Linda Blair, playing a nubile 14-year-old girl who is destroyed by an inhumane system. It was harsh, realistic drama, and the climax was as raw as anything yet seen on network TV-a scene in a shower, where Linda is raped with a broom handle by her fellow inmates...