Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History was established last month to "provide superior conditions for research and teaching." But the organization of the center, as outlined by Oscar Handlin, its newly-appointed director, makes it evident that University officials have expended far more energy in planning the center's libraries and fellowship programs than in determining how the center will affect undergraduate education. That is certainly contrary to the wishes of the late legal historian for whom the center is named...
Twenty-five years ago, Charles Warren '95, chaired the Overseers' Visiting Committee on the History Department and was shocked to find that Harvard students were apathetic about American history and that Harvard professors taught very few courses in the field. His widow's $7 million bequest could change that, but the first tentative plans for the administration of the funds indicate that it will...
...assistant professorships in American History will be increased by the bequest. These young post-doctoral students will not only staff courses taught by senior faculty members but will also for the first time be able to offer courses of their own. This would seem to satisfy even Charles Warren, but it is doubtful that appointing junior faculty can solve the History Department's major problem: the History Department, among others, recently has had great difficulty retaining junior faculty members until their appointments expire...
...Warren strategy, like that of Governor Thomas E. Dewey in New York, was extremely successful on the state level. But it couldn't produce winners in a presidential election; in the acid test of 1948, the Dewey-Warren ticket could not defeat Harry S Truman...
Ironically, something like the old Warren strategy was revived by none other than Richard Nixon in his campaigns for the presidency in 1960 and for governor in 1962. Nixon's losses in both years left the field open for the increasing noisy and powerful radical right. The California right was decisive in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Barry Goldwater, and today it seems about to win another prize; the gubernatorial nomination for former movie actor Ronald Reagan...