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...Eleanor Roosevelt paid a visit to Radcliffe, the first president's wife ever to do so, and gave two addresses. She told a Phi Beta Kappa that--I quote from the Radcliffe News of December 18, 1942--"she thought this decade the most exciting in all history for the young girl--the young college girl. 'Not since pioneer days have women had such great chances to prove their worth...
...believe most of us agreed with Mrs. Roosevelt. But it is also consistent with the times that so few of us criticized Harvard's closed-to-women graduate schools and libraries, and the lack of women on the Faculty...
...debated the future of the world at the Harvard Council for Post-War Problems, followed the war in the Pacific, rejoiced at the D-Day landings, mourned President Roosevelt's death and celebrated V-E Day in Harvard Yard. When the atom bomb dropped, we did not agonize over its use, because it had brought us peace...
Although Conant had been rather ambivalent about the German army's march across Europe prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland, after the start of the war on September 1, Conant "emerged on the national scene as a leading interventionist and in the Roosevelt administration as an apostle of military preparedness," according to a biography of Conant written by James B. Hershberg...
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has become the spokeswoman for a loose confederation of scholars who likewise are appalled at the idea of going ahead with the memorial as designed. "Roosevelt's polio made his special relationship with the American people possible," she said last week. "Not to allow that to be shown would be a fundamental distortion of history, a real loss." The Roosevelt heirs, who at first seemed supportive of a historically cleansed memorial, seem to have tipped the other way, with many favoring a change. The National Organization on Disability has agreed to pick up any extra cost...