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Alumni--those welcomed to "the company of educated men and women" in years past--should send Harvard that message at every turn. They should tell the University that they are uncomfortable giving money to an institution whose investment policies are explicitly amoral. They should remind officials that they resent it when Harvard tries to cancel academic projects because of inflexible funding schemes and institutional infighting. They should show Harvard they feel the College's diversity is worth paying a high price for, that it is a critical enough value not to be squandered because of tight finances...
...distract us, no nuclear arrangements to worry about and Prohibition to keep us soberly at work. (I did take a course in atomic physics that seems very out-of-date as I look back on it, but seemed exciting at the time.) The yearbooks remind its of how we looked in those days, but I am more interested in what we thought and felt like. What was our would view? Did we have one? It took 10 days to get to Europe, so we may be excused for being nationalist in outlook...
...summits should put the much discussed strains within the Western alliance in proper perspective. The grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with...
...construct was to see. He was never interested in conventional beauty. Sober, pinched, reflective, lined and melancholy, his portraits remind us of that. But how many American artists said more about the sense of being in the world? Eakins was that extreme rarity, an artist who refused to tell a lie even in the service of his own imagination. -By Robert Hughes
Your Essay will remind Americans that their philosophical heritage should be reconsidered. In 1837 Emerson wrote, "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." America could renew itself with some of Emerson's idealism...