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...human behavior. Their contributions to mobilizing the country's young men and maintaining the nation's enthusiasm for its effort were appreciated by those involved and academics were impressed by the potential benefits of interdisciplinary study. In 1946, the country, or at least Harvard, had caught up to Parson's insurgents. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave the go-ahead for a new department calling it Social Relations...
...charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian baroque, and the signs swing from the Cat and Custard Pot Inn to the Parson's Nose. But the good ones all offer similar pleasures indoors: a friendly host, welcoming bar and foamy pints that are still worth sampling. This book slakes nearly every sense except thirst...
When we were very young, we learned that George Washington had confessed to chopping down a cherry tree because he couldn't tell a lie; we were still young when we learned that Parson Weems had propagated this little tale in an effort to edify the youth of the new nation, that the chocolate hatchets sold in candy stores on Feb. 22 were all part of the commercial exploitation of legend...
...President Darryl A. Parson '87 said he left the meeting with the feeling that "undergraduate publications really are interested in attracting minority students and are making attempts to do so." He added that the meeting dispelled his former uncertainty on that point...
...Parson cited the extensive time commitment (especially for students holding work study jobs) and the lack of Black role models as reasons that few Blacks comp The Crimson and other publications...