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Harvard men, this theory says, are Harvard men because they're not--that is, the good thing about Harvard is that it doesn't turn out a pre-stamped, homogeneous product. William James said, "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product," and President Conant agreed: "Harvard was founded by dissenters. Before two generations had passed there was a general dissent from the first dissent. Heresy has long been...
...hangout, because it was big as houses go in the villages, with two rooms and a six-foot ceiling (when often two or three whores work a single room in shifts), and because the prostitute who lived there had an ice chest that was a cornucopia of beer. Her proudest possessions were the kerosene lamp on the table in the front room and the stack of fourteen bars of soap beside it. Raised as I was on Right Guard, Dial, and Johnson's Baby Shampoo, it was hard to get excited about soap. But as a material good...
...Empress of a predominantly Moslem nation, Farah is proud of the strides that Iran is making in establishing equal rights for women. One of her proudest moments came when the Shah dispatched her on an official trip to Peking two years ago at a time when Iran was moving to strengthen diplomatic relations. Farah interpreted the Shah's entrustment of such a sensitive mission to her as evidence of his commitment to a new role for women outside the home. What about becoming regent? "I don't want to think about it, but sometimes I do," she told...
...guided the Jayhawks to 24 conference championships. He retired in 1956, leaving a record (771 games won, 233 lost for a .768 percentage over his 46-year career) that stood until 1968-the year one of Allen's own students, Adolph Rupp, broke it. Allen's proudest achievement came in 1936, when, as a result of his one-man crusade, basketball became an Olympic sport...
Building Spree. As Governor, he hit the ground running. He expanded the state university from 38,000 students on 41 campuses to 244,000 on 72 campuses-his proudest achievement. He added 50 state parks, 100,000 new housing units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, 200 water treatment plants and three model communities. Highways were built, the Governor estimated, at the rate of 4% miles a day. Very little that he wanted built did not get built. He was wisely rebuffed when, in the urgent atmosphere of the early 1960s, he proposed state-supported fallout shelters for every home...