Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has traditionally liked so think of its Houses as miniatures of the College--what Dean of the College John B Fox Jr. '59 has called "the ideal of the microcosm." But this week's confirmation of lingering disparities between the Houses in the racial composition and athletic participation of residents has dispel led that perception...
...result, administrators are bracing themselves for a probable series of discussions next fall--most likely in the Faculty Council and among the House masters--which they say will resolve the issue of whether the College should tamper with the generally popular preferential lottery to achieve the microcosm ideal...
...question serves to illustrate that Beyond the Ivory Tower operates on-two levels. The first concerns the sanctity of the Ivory Tower itself, which Bok skillfully goes to great lengths to defend. His discussion of the ideal of the university's "four essential freedoms" is stirring and convincing, if not refreshing. The second level focuses on the methods the university should employ to both safeguard those values and exert positive influence on society. This dominates most of the book and can summed up by the words "cost-benefit analysis." The interplay between the two levels proves far from satisfying...
...University should address those problems in particular, in addition, of course, to preventing another overrun in admissions. The oft-stated goal of making Harvard a tightly knit community remains a fine ideal. But when "closeness" begins to imply living in slummy ex-washrooms, we've got to wonder whether the Harvard Experience isn't actually the Harvard Ordeal...
This saga of science is a compelling story, and the brilliant, arrogant Oppenheimer is a compelling character-a tragic symbol of one of the most triumphant yet melancholy periods in U.S. history. He would have made an ideal subject for an American TV network, but it is just as well that none of them has told his story, for it is hard to find much fault with this seven-part series from...