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Yet this attitude fits in with his having taken what, in contrast to the Herter-Kennan-Pearson end of the spectrum, might be called a right-wing or Dulles-type position on summitry and other cold-war relaxation measures. Despite his acute political trendex-consciousness, Rockefeller need therefore not be...
Lowell's last innovation was the Society of Fellows, finally established just before he resigned in 1932-33. Ostensibly the Society was different from his earlier projects because it involved only a small and academically exclusive group instead of all the undergraduates or all the faculties. But fundamentally, it was...
In his report to the faculty for 1930-31, Lowell had urged the establishment of "a Society of Fellows, composed of a limited number of the most brilliant young men that can be found... Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country," he said. "To...
Lowell was personally more involved with the Society of Fellows than with any of his other projects for the College. Not only did he create and endow the Society; he supervised its operation and kept in close touch with its members, even after he had resigned the presidency, until his...
On the other hand, many people have supposed that as a member of a high-principled and benevolent Eastern family, he would not be found on the side of Mundt-McCarthyrite principles. His support of the student loyalty oath, that fatuous relic of the hysterical era which no other Western...