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...claims by proponents of sociobiology have made it one of the most inflammatory doctrines ta emerge from the campuses in decades. Since 1975, when Harvard Zoologist Edward Wilson's mammoth 700-page book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis brought the new science to public attention, the controversy has spread beyond Harvard???where it originated?dividing faculty departments and disrupting academic conventions. Angry opponents denounce "soso biology" as reactionary political doctrine disguised as science. Their fear: it may be used to show that some races are inferior, that male dominance over women is natural and that social progress is impossible because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard???to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Midwest: Heartland Recaptured | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Author is arrestingly young, only 25 or so, only three years out of Harvard???a fact which seems to have annoyed certain stiff-jointed metropolitan pundits, who, holding Whitman to be an object for grave veneration, have almost called Cameron Rogers an overweening puppy. But young Author Rogers is not overweening nor has he overreached his powers. He is mature, not precocious?maybe as the result of a cosmopolitan upbringing. He and his brothers were schooled in Switzerland. His summer vacations from college were all spent with the Meynell family in England?authors Wilfrid and Alice and their talented children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Idler | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...Harvard???Residents of the college dormitories in which the LaFollette men had their headquarters circulated a petition to have the club evicted. University authorities ordered the club to depart in obedience to an ancient rule forbidding the use of dormitory rooms as club headquarters. Whereupon the Harvard Liberal Club offered the use of its rooms and the LaFollette men kept on with their work of direct- ing the silver-haired Senator's campaign in and about Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campus Campaigning | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " On Saturday, Nov. 24, a day of football games?Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard???I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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