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Using the "rolling" policy the committee has accepted 614 applicants to date, expecting about 460 of these to come to Harvard. Next month the committee will review 500 late and 175 deferred applications to fill 75 vacancies and bring the class to its limit...
Goldwater won the nomination, then, not simply because he had the approval of assorted racists. Birchers, and National Review brand ideologues but because he had the whole-hearted, deepthroated support of the long-time Republican party worker, who has his own, somewhat different ideology. These workers feed on the 15 and 30-year-old dogmas that still dominate Republican thinking. Even Republican "liberals" nourish these beliefs when they seek those necessary votes in Rockford, Illinois or Phoenix
Buck's piece was not written for the Review but was an old speech, reprinted. Similarly, Paul Deats, Jr.'s "The Problem of Liberal Education" was drawn from an address and as a result has both the asset of some bright rhetoric and notable phrasing and the defect of little depth and tightness. Deats, professor of theology at Boston University, asks the questions: what is a liberal education? is it possible? what hope is there for it? His definition is a fine summary of recent thought but in discussing the forces intruding on liberal education and the prospects for their...
...Review is at its best when it discusses specifics. "Identity-at Harvard and Harvard's Identity," despite its overblown title, details a study of twenty-four Harvard freshmen made in 1959 by David Ricks and Robert McCarley. They compare ideal "public" and "private" students in order to assess the impact college had on each group and find that contrary to myth the preppie possesses deeper anxiety and undergoes greater change because he, unlike the boy from City High, is less prepared by his secondary school culture to fit into the "new" Harvard--a college in which the premium value...
Stookey's essay is must reading, even, or perhaps especially, for those dulled to immobility by the Gen Ed debate at Harvard. But its excellence and importance, its partial fulfillment of the goals outlined for this issue are qualities too rarely seen and demonstrates what The Harvard Review can do but does not do often enough...