Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The once and present president. :-) On 8/30/06 6:46 PM, "Scott McLoughlin" <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > Too true. Harvard admissions is still "need blind" I believe, and > I was there on a generous scholarship. > > I'm glad the institution is so conservative, for just the reasons > you mentioned. > > As for professors, again, my experience was that the mainstream > or conservative professors outnumbered the lefties. But in the 80's, > alot of the old school cold warriors were still alive and kicking. Oh, > and the economics department was squarely capitalist as well. > > Of course, while it seems like just yesterday, things might have > changed since then. But when they brought back Derek Bok as > acting President, a wide smile crossed my face. He was much > admired in my day. > > Scott > > B. D. Colen wrote: > >> As one who's pay check comes from the President and Fellows of Harvard >> University, let me say that there are two Harvards: the "liberal" Harvard >> the news media - and some on this list - love to twit, and the very >> conservative institution that is Harvard. Yes, there are many, many >> 'liberal' professors at Harvard. But the institution is, as I just said, >> very conservative, tending to move forward with baby steps, often taking >> two >> steps back for every step forward. And of course that just may be why it's >> been around for going on 369 years. ;-) >> >> And just to lay to rest the idea that all Harvard students are the idle >> rich >> children of the idle rich - 77% of the students in Harvard College receive >> grants of one sort or another. >> >> >> On 8/30/06 4:59 PM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Aug 30, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Scott wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>> While the media seems to characterize Harvard as a "lefty" >>>>>> place, it's actually a wonderful place to meet bright young >>>>>> people who >>>>>> are so RICH that they will *NEVER* have to work a day in their lives >>>>>> (like most of their parents before them). >>>>>> I recall 18 to 21 year old boys crying in the Dunster House >>>>>> courtyard >>>>>> the day the market crashed in '87, including Robert Ziff (largest >>>>>> t-shirt >>>>>> collection I ever saw), one of the heirs to the magazine fortune >>>>>> (he and >>>>>> his brothers sold it off - why concern themselves with mere >>>>>> business?). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> Your Harvard and mine were quite different places. I went in the >>> years just following WW2 when half of the student body was made up of >>> vets using the GI Bill education benefits. Rather than wanting to >>> revolutionize the system, they wanted to get their piece of it as >>> soon as possible. The school was almost conservative in its outlook. >>> Yale as well. That was the era of Bill Buckley at that lesser >>> institution. My professors had actively aided the WW2 war effort and >>> were proud of it. Chemistry Prof. Louis Fieser invented Napalm. >>> George Kistakowski and others took a leave of absence to work on the >>> atomic bomb. (They claimed it was a Sabbatical.) The room sized >>> mechanical digital computer in the Aiken Computer lab earned its keep >>> by calculating artillery trajectories. Harvard tuition at that time >>> was $8000 a year. A princely sum but one that was affordable even >>> under the GI Bill. I earned half my tuition taking pictures of the >>> burlesque cuties in Sculley Square. A tough job for an 18 year old >>> but someone had to do it. >>> >>> Larry Z (Harvard '51) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >>