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Marina v.N. Whitman, 39. "I was going to get a master's in journalism and one in economics," she recalls, but she chose economics and went on to become celebrated in 1972 as the first woman member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The daughter of Computer Pioneer John von Neumann, Mrs. Whitman was a junior Phi Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade...
Marina V. N. Whitman '56, a member of the Board of Overseers, said her role as an advisor to the Federal Economic Council and Price Commission put her on the list. She is now a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh...
Chautauquas were a form of adult education for farmers and tradespeople that flourished in the last half of the nineteenth century. They were a cross between the travelling tent-show and the camp-meeting. They were the country relatives of the Lyceum lectures where Whitman exhorted and praised the "common man" and Emerson taught him philosophy. Pirsig's harking back to this old American institution, his one man revival of that vein of democratic oratory is not sentimental. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance offers intellectual challenge, a real critical education in the philosophy of science that sounds...
After working his way through Whitman College, Douglas determined to enter Columbia Law School and rode freight trains east, arriving in New York City with a properly legendary 6? in his pocket. A brilliant student who was anguished at finishing second in his class, he briefly tried a job as a Wall Street lawyer, then moved on to Columbia and Yale, teaching law. Professor Douglas thought most of his students were "spoiled brats." His legal articles on high finance prompted Joseph P. Kennedy to bring him to Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities...
EDMUND A. WHITMAN, in "Town and Gown," boasted of the good relations between the college and the town. Although the time when Commencement Day was "a holiday throughout the province when the shops of Boston were generally closed and the proprietors repaired to the Cambridge common, which was completely taken possession of by drinking stands, dancing booths, mountebank shows and gaming tables," he could still write that "in Cambridge the college has always been deferential to the town authorities...