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...that has not yet been whittled away--a tribute to the University's commitment to freedom of speech. How will this year's class discharge its responsibility? The seniors may not remember George Santayana of the class of 1886, who preceded John Kenneth Galbraith as Harvard's sage-in-residence. But they should. For it was Santayana who warned. "Those who forget the past are condemned forever to relive it," and the recent history of Class Day must have him spinning in his grave...
Goldwin abhors the term intellectual-in-residence and with good reason: the scholars burdened in the past by that cumbersome mantle had frequently found themselves useless window dressing for the White House staff. Lyndon Johnson, for example, had little respect for his resident sage Eric Goldman, commenting on several occasions that the Princeton historian was only around "to please the intellectuals...
Died. Sir Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...
...anti-intellectualism.' We can see it in such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls, etc."). Also high finance (the faculty, Schmidt says, wonders why Harvard has "suddenly become General Motors," while "faculty wives are just as vociferous about the weekly trip to Sage's as the ladies are in Southie, if somewhat more genteel...
...with this we see that at bottom Fairlie differs little from Newman, with his evil grin on his face as he turns to a page in the O.E.D., or from Schlesinger, aloft on a white horse and extending his lance-like pen. The precise-writing journalist, the university sage, the charismatic politician: in each case power is wielded by the few versus the many, and what each tries to pass off as a democracy is nothing but a literocracy, where the pure word, defined by those who KNOW, rules. That explains Newman's complaints about the deleterious effect...