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...from the gamble-fund as much as the individual students. First, the experiment has focused attention on aid to the student, particularly scholarship students. "Because of programs like this," Briggs says, "Harvard facilities have become geared to help people." He notes that counseling services have especially improved. As a partial result, the percentage of all scholarship students who stay for four years has increased...
...that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor killed at the University of Virginia, and the president of Mississippi's Oakland College stabbed to death...
Aside from partisanship, other pitfalls exist in the sort of "instant history" that Schlesinger has undertaken. Even if he had not been partial to the Administration, some critics ask, wouldn't his very closeness to events distort his perspective? Harvard Economist J. K. Galbraith, perhaps Schlesinger's best friend, thinks not. "Saying he was too close to events is like saying he had too much information," says Galbraith. But won't future books offer a much better perspective? Says Author Theodore H. White, who has written a good deal of instant history himself...
...Partly because of the pace of social change, identifications must be cautious, selective, partial, and incomplete...
...Replacing the more total identifications of the past are ever more partial, selective, and incomplete identifications...