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...inferno," the friend remembers. "Depression is not the word." For six days she let herself be looked after, but on Feb. 10 she went back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate. In the last week of her life she laid bare the heart of her art in a clouting couplet...
...other areas. Because of the heavy weight given to generals in computing the degree of honors, "take as many gov courses as you can possibly squeeze in" becomes the implicit requirement for those who want to do well. The Department supplements this unwritten rule by also requiring Ec 1 and a year of history...
These requirements, written and unwritten, are unfortunate because government, perhaps more than any of the other social sciences, gains relevance as an area of study by being put in context with related fields. This is not to say that government is not worth studying for its own sake, but--as Harvard's refusal to name its Department "political science" implies--it is not a precise discipline, and the gov major can only gain by drawing from history, sociology, economics, and philosophy. The vast majority of Harvard gov majors, in fact, do not go on to graduate school in government...
...alumni ties, which probably aren't as strong now as many Administration officials say--but Harvard is cautious and it's not now for deliberatly alienating its graduates.) First, whatever one thinks of the building's esthetics, it is significant example of post-war American architecture, and an unwritten University rule seems to be the conservation of buildings from different periods. And second, because of its architecture and location, the building is probably the most memorable land-mark on campus. "It's got soul," as one Radcliffe sophomore remarked, and, whatever the merit of this distinction, one does not like...
Weaver's wife Ella is an auburn-haired, fair-skinned North Carolinian who has a University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...