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More than any watershed historical monument or poetic irony, the most important lesson I learned at Harvard was taught to me during a groggy morning lecture in Memorial Hall, coincidentally around the same time I decided to become a Big Brother. Sharing the spiritual verse of Dorothy Day, Professor Robert Coles '50 sat humbly at the front of the stage and whispered: "There is a call to us, a call of service--that we join with others to try to make things better in this world." It was, therefore, not surprising to see these inspiring words on the back cover...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: Keeping the 'Call of Service' | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitler's December Years | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...President A. Lawrence Lowell is credited with first suggesting a new chapel, calling it "the best monument that we can build to these our heroes...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Memorial Church Role Has Changed | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

Criticism persisted, however, over the religious nature of the monument...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Memorial Church Role Has Changed | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

While Conley did display the breadth of his historical and archaeological knowledge with his allusion to the terra cotta army buried with a third century B.C.E. emperor near Xi'an, China, the imagery he used in his portrayal ironically combined this monument of ancient civilization with a stero typical Charlie Chan-type caricature of the Chinese face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conley Employs Stereotypes | 11/30/1994 | See Source »

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