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Chosen president of Harvard over considerable conservative opposition, Eliot made sweeping changes. He abolished virtually all required courses. He canceled the stern Puritan rules of discipline: no more compulsory daily chapel, no more bans on smoking or theatergoing. He overhauled and greatly improved the medical and law schools, founded the...
Harvard claims a long tradition of defending dissenters. When Physics Professor Wendell Furry and Research Assistant Leon Kamin took the Fifth Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an...
A reception last winter in Washington honored 40 high-ranking presidential appointees with the Harvard connection. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and five Cabinet members. Absent from the party were Chief Justice Nominee William Rehnquist (M.A., '50) and three of the Supreme Court's Associate Justices, all veterans...
Constitutional scholars like Harvard's Laurence Tribe and Columbia's Vincent Blasi see a cloaked radicalism in such doctrine. While claiming legitimacy from the founders, they argue, a decision like Dred Scott flouts decades of evolving law and practice--in this case the Missouri Compromise, along with other statutes through...
"Crack it up, crack it up," the drug dealers murmur from the leafy parks of the suburbs to New York City's meanest streets. The pushers are highly visible and undiscriminating. Three weeks ago, New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan...