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...readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion. Although history is said to repeat herself anyway, President Pusey and the overseers seemed determined that she not forget Harvard this year. An ancient historian by trade, the president has pointed to the College’s past, shown...
...copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall’s parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 signed a petition supporting Randall’s work. Nonetheless, in April 2001, U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell blocked the publication of the novel, writing that it “constitutes unabated piracy of ‘Gone With the Wind...
...very unpleasant, memory for me.”COMING BACK TO CAMBRIDGEAt the same time Wright filed her grievance with the EEOC, Skocpol learned that then-dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, would assemble an ad hoc committee to investigate her charge. The committee—made up of historian Stanley H. Hoffman, historian of science Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol had already taken a one-year position at the Princeton-affiliated...
...snorted, ‘at Harvard if you’re lucky you might get Galbraith once a week. At Wellesley you get one of my C- students three times a week.’” McGovern recalled Galbraith saying. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a historian who advised President Kennedy alongside Galbraith, could not attend the service due to his health but delivered a message through his son Stephen Schlesinger, calling Galbraith “my closest friend in the world.” “His brilliant employment of subversive weapons...did not always please...
...professor familiar with Social Studies said that the way the steering committee is being formed is likely to result in a committee of academics who reflect the interests of Tuck, an historian of political thought, and not necessarily those of concentrators...