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Haig was a dutiful student who graduated a poor 214th in the 310-member class of 1947. But he did show occasional flashes of intellect. One of his instructors recalls giving a class in which Haig was a middling student and seemed bored. Then he was given an assignment to read various studies about the peaceful control of atomic energy, and prepare a five-minute talk. Most of the cadets droned through dull remarks, says the instructor, but "all of a sudden this Cadet Haig got up and gave an absolutely stunning speech. He understood all the material...
...unusual figure in the formal and rigorous world of French historiography. He is not a professional scholar, but head of the information center of the Institute of Applied Research for Tropical and Subtropical Fruits in Maisons-Lafitte. Clearly mangoes and papayas have not been enough to satisfy his voracious intellect. Ariès is best known as the author of Centuries of Childhood (1962), a landmark study that demonstrated that benevolent child rearing is a relatively recent practice in the West...
SUCCESS IN ALL THIS depends on renewal in the realm of intellect and spirit. It requires maintaining our already contested lead in science and technology and developing a many-sided energy policy not hampered by, among other things, hysterical fears of nuclear power. These topics are examined in DISCOVER. Success will also require a nation that is far better educated than we are now, a problem addressed in LIFE. We must recover a view of education beyond a certain point, not as a right, but as a privilege. Education must no longer be regarded as painless but as an enterprise...
Aloian "is a man of great intellect and humor." James Quitslund, a close working associate of Aloian, said yesterday, adding. "He understands Harvard, both the students and administration, better than anyone I know...
...David F. Bush '81, Michael S. Elias '81, Jerome Levi '81, Paul Y. Liu '81, and Eric P. Rakowsky '80. The Marshall scholarship, founded by the British government in 1953 in appreciation for American aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan, is awarded to students who demonstrate "distinction of intellect and character" and who show promise of making "a significant contribution to their society...