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This is perhaps the most tangible evidence of a Harvard phenomenon which began long before any current undergraduate can remember and which some say dates back to the creation of the House system in the late 1920s. Most student administrators and faculty members agree with Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 who calls student involvement at Harvard "stunning." Yet participation in students government has been abysmal. Put simply, Harvard classes of class presidents and other high school stand outs traditionally veer away from the government roles they played in high school and often expect to play again...
...cars are the stars. Built mostly in the late 1920s, they are jewels of art deco crystal and cabinetwork. Some were discovered, rotted and unrecognizable, on remote railroad sidings. One had been used as a brothel in Limoges during World War II; another had been tenderly maintained by a schoolmaster at Eton. Each car had to be equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from...
...suicide for several members of the clan. Uncle Minturn, who kept watch over the Sedgwick gravesite in Stockbridge, Mass., insisted on cheap pine coffins for the family and would lie inside them to test their fit. Edie's father Francis, a golden boy at Harvard in the 1920s who turned to sculpting and then brought his wife and children to California, was perhaps the most curious of the lot. To save the expense of hiring a model for his sculpture of a Crucifixion scene, he strapped himself to a large cross and observed himself before a full-length mirror...
...debate over "aptitude versus achievement" widely considered to be illustrated by the ongoing SAT Achievement dichotomy, is a long-standing one. Those who wrote concerned or angry letters to the New York Times disputing Harvard's Achievement test emphasis advanced the same general arguments that, in the late 1920s, led Harvard President Eliot and some other educators to form the College Board and later institute SATs...
Perhaps underlying Runcie's long-term view for the future is a 1920s proposal by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier that Anglicanism be "united, not absorbed." This would leave the Archbishop of Canterbury as patriarch of a group that would come under the papacy but retain control of its liturgy and canon law. Still, no sort of reunion-Runcie's flexibility aside-could occur without similar flexibility from Rome...