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...agree that more young people are enlisting in the armed forces [May 23] because of "a perceived threat to national security." I disagree, however, with Major Robert Pistana's remark that to the new generation of recruits "Viet Nam is ancient history, something the old folks talk about." We have not forgotten Viet Nam. We are using it as a model of what not to do in the future...
Henry Rosovsky stirred up a good deal of publicity with an offhand remark he made soon after becoming dean of the Faculty in 1973. "One thing that depresses me about this job is feeling like a dentist," he said. "Every half hour another person comes in, leaving little time for contemplation...
Ferris dispelled any traces of ambition with his final remark. "Look for me among the crowd of doctors and lawyers. I'll be the one pushing the broom
Henry Adams's experience provides an interesting point of comparison for the similarities and the differences. There is the all to familiar backhanded smugness of his remark that, for all its shortcomings, "Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any college than in existence." And it was certainly still true in 1958 that, as a body, the most formidable critics one would care to meet, in a long life exposed to criticism. I cringed to remember the soon we heaped on an innocent who, asked in a freshman humanities class what it meant to say the gods in the Iliad...
Such wide-eyed enthusiasm has prompted one of Broderick's colleagues to remark, "Matthew is really 21 going on 15." Or perhaps 50: he is a fascinating combination of young and old, innocent and wise. "From the minute he was born, he was almost the most grownup member of my family," says his mother Patsy. "He's very commonsensical, and he's got a very strong ear for what is going on in a room. He can read people just right. He started off savvy...