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...influence the most ethical outcome.”He applied his strict sense of ethics to himself. When he had to pay a fine for shooting a dove above a baited field, he insisted that it be written up in his newspaper—though the incident was so minor it would not have normally merited ink.“He felt it should be there. He violated the law,” Post remembers.BREAKING UPBut Bingham’s unwillingness to change his views led to dissent on the leadership of the board. He wanted the women...
...Yale beats Harvard football, 21-7. A week later, the Medical School receives grant of million dollars in unrestricted finds from the Commonwealth Fund.12/1: Dunster wins the first inter-house debate as judges split on verdict. Sanitary engineers begin with an investigation today to determine the cause of a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbance.12/2: The union closes to freshman following a fire causing $15,000 in damages. The business school raises tuition by $200 in 1956, the money is for an increase in faculty salaries.12/8: Students and staff of Harvard’s AFROTC bitterly criticized the Air Force yesterday...
...Completing my first piece of journalism, in 1998, I downloaded a public domain translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" and searched it for references to a minor character called Marfa Ignatyevna, in order to add some texture to a discussion of the small but significant town of Marfa, Texas, a place supposedly named after this woman who "obeyed...yet...pestered" her "honest and incorruptible" husband. Having an active text version of the novel - which I also owned and knew - provided me with one of those extremely rare moments of pleasure, clarity, and completion in the act of writing, when the puzzle...
...Franco's Spain and a wily insurgent servant (Maribel Verdú), fighting for possession of a sad, dreamy child. It's got sumptuous special effects and, finally, a mournful wisdom about love, honor and death. Also a standout was Climates, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This minor-key étude of love, sex and selfishness used minimalist strategies to reveal the shifting emotional allegiances of a college professor, played with gruff appeal by the director. Shortbus, a U.S. romantic comedy set in a New York City sex salon, might have been the outrage of the festival, since it contained...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall, the change will create a “school within a school,” which would remain part of FAS. Undergraduates would retain their affiliation with Harvard College. Indeed, the change’s ramifications appear to be minor, yet positive—except for the promised faculty-hiring spree (which is arguably long overdue anyway), the biggest change seems to be cosmetic. A school is a whole lot easier to sell than a division. Harvard seems to be taking the bait.Nonetheless, new money and fresh blood will doubtless improve Harvard?...