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...connection between these incidents and the renowned teacher and scholar who is retiring this month may be a tenuous one, but it provides a sharp insight into the personality of the man who has placed the study of "Americana" in its proper historical perspective. For Arthur Schlesinger, more than any other man, is responsible for the humanization of American history. Through his writing, editing, and teaching he has led the movement away from the study of history as a series of political and economic events toward a comprehensive picture of American life. His writings run the gamut from a study...
After Mrs. Glover-Holyoke and Stephen Day died, there is a long lapse in the history of Harvard printing. Then, in 1803, a man named Hilliard began a printing shop in Cambridge called the University Press. Actually, his shop was not connected with the University by even the tenuous bonds of marriage, but he did do most job printing for Harvard...
...with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities about certain tenuous "affiliations" of years past, was acceptable to the completion of committee the as a record . . "clarification." Again, to say that we personally received a citation from the California American Legion for our anti-Communist activities rather overstates the case. The citation was given to a radio series ... to which I contributed, thus I was included...
Traditionally tenuous town-gown ties will be put to the test this week as Judson T. Shaplin '42, director of Freshman Scholarships, intensifies his fight for a seat on the Cambridge School Committee...
...made the end of film-showing imminent by their actions. In an atmosphere of constant squabble, one organization's charges against another for unfair competition or cut-throat tactics has prejudiced the Faculty Committee against all groups. Either insensitiveness or indifference to this has placed the organizations in the tenuous position they now hold. A good example is the meager attempt for reconciliation last week. The UN Council and the HLU stated that they were ready for some kind of agreement, and even exchanged films in violation of the releaser's contract. But the HLU then accused Ivy Films...