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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The journal tries to represent as many disciplines as possible, providing, one of the founders wrote, "a medium through which leading scholars can address each other." The title itself refers to Daedalus, the Greek scientist who escaped from the labyrinth. The scholar, according to the comparison, has his own labyrinth...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: 'Daedalus': An Attempt to Rescue The Significant From the Fashionable | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

The fact that two-thirds of the Army ROTC enrollment at Harvard consists of law (graduate) students and the fact that only 20 per cent of the undergraduate students actually use ROTC for degree credit make the question of academic credit essentially irrelevant. If this be the case, then it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Pell's Case for ROTC | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

Frequent participants, like Margaret Mcad, consider the conferences works of art in themselves. Even if the essays do not also make it as art, they do represent real scholarship. A single edition of Daedalus can take three years to produce, though most take under two. Publication in the journal and...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: 'Daedalus': An Attempt to Rescue The Significant From the Fashionable | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

Occasionally, it risks a topic with little interdisciplinary appeal. A conference last year on historical demography did attract one theologian, but ended up almost exclusively with historians, demographers, and historical demographers. Since the volume itself cannot represent men from every discipline, goes the logic, at least men from every discipline...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: 'Daedalus': An Attempt to Rescue The Significant From the Fashionable | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

Two Kinds of Women. The engravings, as usual fully subscribed in advance in editions of 50 each, have been assembled into an exhibit titled simply "347 Gravures" and mounted simultaneously in Paris and Chicago; the show is just finishing a six-week run at the Galerie Louise Leiris, but by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: Erotica at 87 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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