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...annual report, Edwin N. Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law School, quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa oration given June 11 by Gerard Piel. Piel's address was headlined in papers throughout the nation the next day, and is one of the most important speeches delivered at Harvard Commencements. Following is an expanded version of the CRIMSON's June 12 news coverage...
...Beta Kappa address at Harvard last June, Gerard Piel said: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to a fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth. In the command of those same means, progress has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
Griswold quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa address given at Commencement by Gerard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to the fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth, [and] has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...attitude toward the stadium. "To right-thinking men everywhere, college football is and has been from its inception a beastly sport.. college presidents become absolute boobies when they contemplate the glories of their athletic programs." Recruiting is for him the chief crime; and he pats Phi Beta Kappa for being almost the only organization to stand by its principles and refuse to grant new charters to colleges that give disproportionate aid to athletes. But there are signs of a slow change: Hutchins abolished big-time foot-ball at Chicago, Brandeis dropped it a few years ago, and Marquette University...
...department, had an equal humanity. Refreshingly unfeminist, Miss Nicolson was longtime dean of Smith College, and a formidable Yale-and-Michigan-educated scholar who endlessly illustrated how science inspired 17th and 18th century poetry and philosophy. Her honors were staggering. She was the first woman president of Phi Beta Kappa (1940), and the only person ever elected to the office for a second term...