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ROTC does in fact represent an alliance between the University and the warmakers, but the alliance is not a new one. Harvard has had some kind of undergraduate military instruction since the early nineteenth century, and its three ROTC units are today among the oldest in the nation. These units were conceived in the atmosphere of internationalism which for many years was Harvard's political character in an isolationist America. The original Army unit was formed largely in response to widespread student demand when, in late 1915, 1200 men of Harvard enlisted in a new drill unit within...
...Mumford, the city seems a place where a nineteenth century man--rural, self-sufficient, intellectual--can reach some sort of compromise with modernity. Many young people, however, seem to see positive values in the chaos and closeness of city--a chance to meet other people, and share an almost communal experience...
...nineteenth should come off without a hitch this afternoon. Head Coach Bill McCurdy is clearly expecting no threat in Providence. McCurdy sent his squad through a timed interval workout on the track yesterday instead of the usual pre-meet "tapering...
...whole life of his subject. But not all a man's life is pertinent to his ideas. The greatest danger . . . is that what purports to be a history of thought will degenerate into a collection of more or less picturesque biographical incidents . . . --English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century...
...many years, including 1967-1968, Brinton's course on the Intellectual History of Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries attracted the largest single class enrollment in the College...