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Writing in the New American Review, Wilfrid Sheed offers the intriguing, if overly pat explanation that McCarthy is a "Commonweal Catholic." This is Sheed's term for those members of the generation of U.S. Catholics, now aged 35 to 60, who combine "oldfashioned religious training" with progressive politics shaped...
In a two-part series in Harper's, Jeremy Larner, a novelist who helped write McCarthy's campaign speeches, takes a more critical view of McCarthy as a captive of his own personality, his obsession with style and his upbringing among German Catholics in central Minnesota.*The German...
None of this is to suggest that Harvard's academic standards are suffering. Admission has never been harder; fewer than one in five applicants make it. The number of entering freshmen who score in the 90th percentile or better on the Scholastic Aptitude Test rises each year. With an...
The Harvard Office of Tests has conducted an unpublished study comparing the scholastic achievement of student demonstrators and their less radical college classmates.
B.C. will alternate a strong corps of defensemen, including Charley Ahern and Jack Cronin, two other All-Scholastic picks last year. Its one weakness, however, is in the nets where John Smolens gives the team only adequate goaltending.