Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The "Protestant tradition" which received so much emphasis in last year's religious discussions actually seems to be fast disappearing at Harvard--if it exists now at all. A Harvard education is more destructive to Protestantism than to Catholicism or Judaism. While only 21 per cent of the Catholics and...
What strikes the brash newcomer is not only the new and different philosophies; it is not even the fact that he must re-measure the world about him with the new yard-stick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he...
Hostility to the Jewish scholar has receded in recent years, Harry Wolfson noted. "If a Jew writes a good book, he can get it published as easily as a non-Jew. I don't believe that there is an analogy between scholarship and social and economic life," he stated. Jewish...
He must have taken satisfaction, if he ever could, reflecting on the moral education he provided for sixteen years of Harvard students. The brash students themselves may have disagreed with him, but Josiah Quincy was staunchly proud of his righteousness in upholding the old verities against the moral latitude of...
Finally, Quincy discovered his conception of right and that of his constituents did not coincide, and so he declined to run again in 1812. "I found that a Representative in Congress from Boston, to be supported, must follow the opinion of his constituents concerning their real or imagined interests, and...