Word: harvardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following week against UMass, the first act in Harvard's grotesque drama "Maim the Quarterback" opened with strained ligaments in the St. John knee...
...also stopped the Crimson's chances for a winning season. The procession of quarterbacks who followed St. John proved either incapable of leading the team, or got hurt before they had the chance. Two Harvard losses followed St. John's injury. He returned against Darmouth, but played on a tender knee, limiting his most potent weapon, the pass-run option. "Burke can run, but even after he came back, his injury took that away," Restic says...
Today I found the Commencement issue of the Harvard Gazette in my mailbox. It has been two years since I graduated and I've changed a lot, but I can't say that the Gazette has. I don't suppose Harvard is much different either--which is a pity. Anyway, reading President Bok's speech set me thinking again about the old hot house on the Charles, set me thinking enough to try and put down a few suggestions for improvements...
...should start by admitting that I don't recall Cambridge with particular affection. I miss the orange juice and the wonderful libraries and a few paintings in the Fogg and I certainly miss the New England countryside. But as an experience, as a way to pass four years. Harvard is over-estimated. It is no doubt the greatest university in the world in many respects, and certainly extraordinarily efficient at grinding out hard-working professionals. But at a basic human level Harvard is sadly devoid of charm or style. Students there are mostly uptight, immature and inarticulate...
This social deficiency is one of the causes, or perhaps one of the results, of what I now see as Harvard's main problem; the steady decline of the humanities as a part of undergraduate education. Harvard's claim to provide a liberal education is very much open to question, when the picture of European culture that the average student acquires is so shallow, so edited, anthologized and interpreted as to be almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific...