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...Yorker articles, Christopher Rand finds that Harvard, along with MIT, is in the midst of nothing less than a renaissance of world importance. "Before long I concluded that I had found a Renaissance in Cambridge," says Rand. "Nobody planned roads leading here that I could see. And yet, Cambridge is a great center, as great perhaps as any in the world now. It has a strange magnetism...
Later in the article, expanding on the theme of strong magnetism, Rand observes...
...Rand's overview of life around the square is credible, it took Gent magazine to really probe beneath the surface, to discover the hidden sources of this "strange magnetism." Foreign observers often have the deepest insights into a society--it took a De Tocqueville to see the real United States, a Halevy to see the real England, and it took Gent magazine to see the real Harvard...
...announced the election of its officers for 1965. Elected were: Publisher, Ordway P. Burden '66, of Eliot House and New York City; Editor-in-Chief. Harrison Young III '66, of Leverett House and Princeton, N.J.; Associate Editors, Philip H. Heckscher '66, of Eliot House and New York City; and Rand E. Rosenblatt '66, of Adams House and Rome, Italy; General Manager, Robert S. Stern '66, of Leverett House and Springfield...
Research in nuclear weapons policies, Western alliance strategy and other topics in strictly "Western area" studies has tended to receive substantial support from agencies in the Federal government and private corporations like the Rand Corporation. Research in non-Western areas receives no such sizeable support. The University could do much to put such non-Western studies on an equal footing throughout the nation by making a point of giving them top priority...