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Such discoveries have swelled Harvard's string of Nobel prizes to 29, of which 25 have been won by the scientific and medical departments, whose scholarly explorations Harvard contemplates with special pride. Among the others: significant discoveries in the fields of chemical bonding, laser spectroscopy and quantum electrodynamics. President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust...
...with this assessment. In a 1979 report he noted that "the case method actually limits the time available for students to master analytic techniques and conceptual material." The B-school agreed and has been ventilating the case method while essentially defending it. Says Senior Associate Dean Joseph Bower, with pride in his school's management training: "One can be effective by working with and through people and not exclusively doing lonely work in the library...
Puttnam's toughest goal in his new job is to make movies that tough critics like himself will applaud. Says the new chairman: "I would be shattered if I could not look with pride at Columbia's pictures. That would not be true of 75% of films made in Hollywood today." But he coyly refuses to offer specifics about his plans. "All I bring with me is a philosophy," Puttnam says. "I have a lot to learn...
Muriel S. Snowden '38, co-founder of Boston's Freedom House, which promotes improved race relations, said she is distressed by the University's lack of pride in its Black achievers. She cited the sparse tribute paid to Harvard's distinguished black graduates at the 350th celebration as evidence that the problem still exists today...
Parties such as this one celebrate the University's partisan pride, not a Harvard history checkered with religious, ethnic and sexual bigotry, parochialism and snobbery. The remberances are as facile as the celebration is slick...