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...journeying begins as it should, in libraries, and in particular with a 1927 work, The Way to Xanadu, by the British scholar John Livingston Lowes. He not only traced literary and mythological influences on the poet's imagery, but demonstrated that Coleridge (1772-1834) was a tireless armchair traveller. There was, in fact, a real Xanadu (more commonly called Shangdu) with the remains of real walls and towers. Marco Polo had been there. And there were in the world -- though not in the same place except on Coleridge's bookshelf -- marvellous caves of ice, mighty fountains, rivers that might well...
Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy, and Susan E. Eaton, a visiting scholar at Harvard, were publicly blasted last month by the Montgomery County school district...
Eaton, an honorary visiting scholar at theSchlesinger Library, is the author of the study.Orfield, who is the director of the HarvardProject on School Desegregation, supervised thereport and wrote a foreword
...Summer School Program at Harvard University is not given the same attention or respect as the Undergraduate program is between fall and spring. Not by the students, not by the upper administration. President Neil L. Rudenstine did not welcome us with a speech on the fundamentals of being a scholar. There were no a capella concerts. We had no ice cream bash...
Predicting the future with remarkableforesight, Black concluded, "He is bound to beheard from later as a scholar...