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...Neibuhr's "chance" began when he was in the Navy. He had applied and been accepted to Harvard as a civilian, but enlisted in the Navy when he turned 18. Ironically, his officers' training unit was stationed at Harvard, where he lived in Eliot House. Two of Niebuhr's peers in the officers training program, Steven M. Shafroth '47 and Raymond F. Sullivan '47, will also be returning to Harvard for the reunion...
...coordinate with modesty." Perhaps, but then, truth is never coordinate with vanity. Self-praise is inescapably distorted and corrupted at its source, and this-not some arbitrary convention of etiquette-makes the self-praiser always seem at least ridiculous or fraudulent, and often worse. One must return to Reinhold Neibuhr for the key: "Since the self judges itself by its own standards, it finds itself good...
...Reinhold Neibuhr would have it, charity is in essence a display of power...
...senior tutor of Quincy House until he became an associate professor of politics at Princeton last month, has edited the first anthology of recent nationalist theory in The Ideologies of the Developing Nations. About one-quarter of his 26 selections were assigned last spring in Reinhold Neibuhr's Government 110, for which Sigmund was the course assistant...
Chafee served on many committees investigating civil rights, including the vice-chairmanship from 1934-1947 of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. This group included Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, Reinhold Neibuhr and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...