Tuition at Harvard College will be increased by the unprecedented sum of $400. Tuition at present 〉 is $2000 having been raised only last year from $1760. The Corporation has not voted on the increase yet, but it is expected to approve it in which case the new tuition of $2400 will be charged this […]
The Student-Faculty Advisory Committee is a unique Harvard institution. It is a joint body which meets regularly and whose student members, at least, have been elected by their fellow students. This year’s Faculty representatives, on the other hand, were directly appointed by President Pusey- -but the membership seemed to reflect the entire range of Faculty […]
THERE is no institution so perfect that it cannot be subjected to calm criticism. The office of the Presidency of the United States, despite its hallowed aura, is in need of such scrutiny because it has become too intensely concentrated a center of power. Worse, the Presidency has come to be viewed by the public […]
THE lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the […]
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HARVARD SQUARE has been gripped, while you were away, by the sprinkling of Summer that passes for Spring around here. The winds are generous, gushing, the fading-blue sky spreads milky sunlight–and the humans below etch jaunty patterns. The lights change to a fixed “DON’T WALK” for traffic to contentedly break into a shuffle. Just then […]
MCGEORGE Bundy haunted Harvard last week, bringing back with him a conception of society and man’s role in it that has recently come to be discredited around here. His argument, astringent and eloquent was, despite weaknesses, ultimately reassuring. The Godkin topic was “To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions,” and Bundy’s message was […]
THE fork of “liberalization” that is jabbing all of Communist Europe these days has two prongs: “Cultural Freedom” and “Political Liberty.” It is easy in an advanced capitalist country to forget sometimes how closely inter-related the two are. European Communist reformers, however, have never lost sight of this close connection–indeed, they sometimes disguise their political […]
The public must exercise its “maximum practicable participation” in the governing process, McGeorge Bundy said last night in the concluding Godkin Lecture. But such participation, he said, can only come about if the Executive power is strengthened. “The way to give a share of power to the people,” he said, “is first to give real […]
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McGeorge Bundy warned yesterday that the “existing system of government in the United States, already dangerously weak, needs a double dose of reinforcement–to meet both its present and future responsibilities.” He was delivering this year’s second Godkin Lecture. Recognizing the present weakness at all levels of government–state and local as well as legislative and judiciary, […]
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ATTACKING the immorality and illegality of the Vietnam war could conceivably shame people into stopping it but this is unlikely. Human beings are remarkably impervious to the calls of conscience when acting on self-interest. The most fruitful argument, then, is one that attempts to show that the American interest is not, in fact, advanced by […]