Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What strikes the brash newcomer is not only the new ideas and different philosophies; it is not even the fact that he must re-measure the world about him with the new yardstick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he...
"Judaism is now not something to be avoided," he asserted. "It is not so much something one must apologize for." What has disappeared more than anything is the antagonism on the part of Jews to identifying themselves with Judaism. Zigmond said that this was a feeling Christians had shared, a...
Rabbi Gold emphasized several times that a student can take or leave his Jewish tradition once he knows what it is. "It is difficult to take or leave something one doesn't know."
Harvard came out way ahead in every department of the game--batting, pitching, fielding, and what have you. The Crimson superiority was so marked indeed, that many of the alumni found it quite feasible to devote their attention to other things beside the activity on the playing-field.
Under these circumstances, Harvard's introductory course in economics can hardly be considered impartial--it certainly presents the "liberal" position in a favorable light, and tends to downgrade what Galbraith calls the "conventional wisdom." It is not suprising that a third of Harvard's students declare themselves in favor of...