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...sort of Darwinian struggle for the loudest and vituperative.” Some professors cautioned against voting down a motion with a seemingly noncontroversial message. “All of this is what the French might call an exercise in drowning a fish,” French historian Stanley Hoffmann said. “It would be seen as very bizarre in the hinterlands that Harvard has rejected a perfectly sensible motion protecting free speech.” Several amendments were made to the proposal over the course of the meeting, with the most significant one explicitly disavowing the relation...
...until the new year, officially ringing in the holidays with ballet’s major cash cow. But for the frugal-minded collegiate crowd (who are either too cold or too postmodern to leave the dorms for a night at the ballet), there is an alternative Tchaikovsky and E.T.A. Hoffmann fix. Get your hands on a copy of the 1977 American Ballet Theater production of “The Nutcracker.” It remains the most popular “Nutcracker” film in history, it is available at Lamont, and it stars Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Russian heartthrob...
...according to Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, one of the five founders of Social Studies, the concentration carefully chose students during its initial years less in order to select the best of Harvard’s crop and more because they worried that most students at Harvard could not complete an interdisciplinary thesis...
...time has passed, though, the increased academic abilities of Harvard students have made these factors almost irrelevant, Hoffmann said. “Today, the College has changed. I do not think there is a particular need academically to gate-keep the concentration anymore...
...Even a small contribution to injustice is something which is not terribly easy to tolerate in a case like this,” The Crimson reported Hoffmann saying...