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...dean, Knowles joined company with a select group of 20th century Harvard men who had not just altered the University but the world around it. In the 1940s, Paul H. Buck held the post, chairing the committee that produced the “General Education in a Free Society?? report, better known as the Red Book, which influenced curricula in higher education for a generation. McGeorge Bundy was chosen as dean in 1953 by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, later to be tapped by another president, John F. Kennedy...
...Because of [society??s] attitudes, it’s somehow unmanly if you’re a man and have been abused,” he said...
Such malevolence and contempt is not only unwarranted, it is utterly baseless. The nature of intellectual discovery demands the concentration of society??s brightest minds and best resources. Synergistic cooperation, not fragmentation and isolation, are generative of academic discovery. To assail the Ivies for “stealing” teachers from their more minimally endowed peers is to imply that these professors are the dominion of public universities. Yet, these professors do not belong to public institutions any more than they do to the Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because...
White rectangular beams line the walls of a married couple’s farmhouse in the Adams House Drama Society??s production of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.” These white beams seem more and more like the bars of a jail cell as the play progresses, trapping the characters in the nightmares that are their own lives. Perception becomes reality as past and present blend together in a battle of words and memories. Pinter’s play provides complicated source material, and this production—executive produced...
...establishment of Irish communities in the early 20th century. But the focus of the day has shifted from religious ceremonies to ethnic pride and parties in modern times. “Fun, green, drunkenness,” Marissa L. Long ’08 said at the Woodbridge Society??s St. Patrick’s Day party on Saturday. “I’m Catholic—I’ve lived in Boston all my life, so it’s a pretty big deal,” she said. One student said that...