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...qualms vexed John Kaplan eight years ago when, as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, he put drug pushers behind bars. A nonsmoking teetotaler, he had little sympathy for drug users of any kind. Later he became a law professor at Stanford University, and the California legislature hired him to help revise the state's drug laws. Then a surprising thing happened: the legislature fired Kaplan and four other professors working on the project because, after three years of exhaustive research, they reluctantly concluded that marijuana should be legalized...
...Kaplan, 41, has turned his provocative findings into a thoughtful book, Marijuana-The New Prohibition (World; $8.50). After weighing the medical and sociological aspects of marijuana, Kaplan uses the cold analysis of a corporate controller to conclude that the financial and social costs of trying to outlaw marijuana are far greater than the benefits. As a rough equivalent to alcohol, Kaplan says, marijuana should be handled in ways that profit from the nation's experience with Prohibition...
Jacob Black, editor of the Bibliography of American Literature: Robert B. Williamson '20, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court; Justin Kaplan '45, biographer of Mark Twain, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for biography: Leroy S. Rouner '53, author. teacher, and scholar in the Philosophy of Religion: Eugene G. h Rocow, professor of Chemistry, retiring this year: and Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, winner of the National Medal for Science this year...
Another prominent member of the class is Justin Kaplan, whose biography of Mark Twain won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Kaplan lives in Cambridge so he can be near Widener Library. As a consequence, he is more in touch with students than many of his classmates. While he probably agrees with, most of Goodman's criticisms of their class, he is more gentle about it. (He remembers Calkins as "someone terribly nice.") Kaplan graduated from Horace Mann School in New York, and says when he came to Harvard he was "definitely made to feel marginal." Nonetheless...
...Kaplan remembers a different Harvard from the one Storer loves and Goodman hates. "I've never since felt as alone as I did freshman year." he says. "I talked to hardly anyone. But I made beautiful discoveries academically. I thought the beauty of Harvard was that they left you alone. We moved back to Cambridge ten years ago just so I could be near Widener Library-I love it and depend...