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...chemistry professor of such limited talents that when he applied for a vacant chair, the post was given to another man. Crushed, Eliot went to Europe, where he was deeply impressed by the German university system. America, he wrote, must develop "a system of education based chiefly upon the pure and applied sciences, the living European languages, and mathematics . . . The vulgar argument that the study of the classics is necessary to make a gentleman is beneath contempt...
...finest institution of higher learning in America will revel through a 350th anniversary fete. There will be, expectably, a stately convocation and more than 100 symposiums on topics ranging from the U.S. Constitution to the structure of a Beethoven string quartet. But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John Harvard, will prance to the music of a female samba...
...Harvard business school has 32,000 M.B.A.s in the world of trade, where many have traded up: 45% of the class of '49 are either chief executive officers or chief operating officers. For anyone seeking access to such power, the Harvard ticket can be pure gold. "There is no question," says one Harvard administrator, "that you can get into doors that otherwise would be closed." Moreover, in the best business fashion the Harvard B school makes money by selling each year 2.5 million copies of its own celebrated case studies to 3,000 educational institutions and corporations worldwide...
...school, meanwhile, is recovering from a guerrilla war among some of its faculty. On one side stand old-liners who teach law as a pure discipline, without value colorations. Attacking them is a rebel cadre under the banner of Critical Legal Studies, a left-leaning doctrine that claims the law is no impartial instrument but serves principally, and in partisan fashion, to maintain the status quo in society. Beneath the spoken issues lies a suspicion that the law school may have become too inbred and is not as concerned with legal ethics as it should...
Also discussed at the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences were scores of other discoveries, ranging from a new speed record set by an exploding star to the latest in mathematical puzzles. The social sciences and humanities also received attention, but experts in the pure and applied sciences apparently generated the most excitement...