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Vellucci said that John Harvard was not "half the scholar Dante was," and he proposed that Harvard University he renamed "Dante's Inferno...
...geodesic, erratic building, which finally opened to the public after her death in 1924, is composed of antique fragments imported from Italy (consisting of balustrades, columns, Gothic windows), of paintings (many Italian masterpieces selected by Harvard's most famous art student, Bernard Berenson) and of manuscripts (from Dante's Inferno to Keats's poetry). She took an interest in young musicians as well as their music, giving aspiring players a chance to perform private concerts before their New York debuts...
...order to gain admission the applicant is asked, among other things, the relationship of Shakespeare to Othello, Dante to the Inferno, Brahms to music, and Whitman to poetry. He must understand such words as debutante and modiste, know that Dali is a painter and verity is the opposite of myth. Only after having established such credentials is a man judged to be qualified under the union rules to become an apprentice steam fitter in New York. In the past, the test has weeded out 66% of the nonwhite applicants and only 18% of the whites-a fairly effective method, according...
...General Education is now going out of favor. The emphasis on science following the first. Sputnik was the first blow to the idea that the well-educated man is one who has read the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Inferno. In 1966, Daniel Bell, Professor of Sociology, issued a critical re-appraisal of the Gen Ed concept, in a study commissioned by Columbia University, which was redesigning its General Education program. Since then, Gen Ed has become an increasingly unpopular idea, subjected to more and more criticism of its basic philosophy...
...weeks ago, when an American plane accidentally bombed a South Vietnamese unit, Burrows was traveling with it. He rushed into the inferno to get his pictures; the result is this week's lead story in LIFE. Call it instinct, call it bravery, call it a drive for perfection -whatever the quality, it made him a superb photographer. He won his first Capa award for a 1963 LIFE spread showing the unrelenting savagery of the war. He won again after a 1965 flight with a Marine helicopter squadron airlifting a battalion of Vietnamese infantry to an isolated area. The Viet...