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...funny thing is, these words were delivered decades ago. Felix Frankfurter, one of the great legal scholars of the twentieth century, was responding to increased enrollments, increased materialism and what he perceived to be decreased civility among his students in 1930. The more times change, the more they stay the same...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus and one of the most prominent economists of the twentieth century, celebrated his ninetieth birthday yesterday with a cocktail party held at the ARCO Forum...
...twentieth century was the judge of that debate, clearly it has rendered its judgment in favor of Croly. Or has it? Why, then, at the end of the century, is there such an incessantly growing literature on "the end of the age of the nation-state"? Why would Nelson Mandela pay tribute to Harvard, not as an American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity...
Most Harvard students don't look forward to rainy, cold Sundays in October. This Sunday was different. The twentieth annual Oktoberfest descended on Harvard Square, bringing with it arts and crafts vendors, street musicians, food, beer and rides...
...Yopp's lifeless body. But he is seeing a different woman--and feeling an unexpected rage. "Why, Dad?" he is thinking. "Why in hell didn't you drag me out of bed? I was thinking, well, at least they get to see their mom." The sequence lasts "about a twentieth of a second" before Baker enters the room where the Yopp family waits. Before God takes over...