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...endorsed by many university officials, who offered up the literal student body for examination. Radcliffe, too, took these risque photos from 1931 until 1961, when the Harvard and Radcliffe health services merged. The Seven Sister colleges picked up the practice after Wellesley College started it in the late 1920s, and sent training materials about posture to other women’s colleges. Luckily for Radcliffe women, their pictures were strictly health-related and Sheldon could not get a hold of their photos for his never completed “Atlas of Women.” After Sheldon fell into disgrace...
During Lowell’s tenure, Harvard was struggling with the problem of reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender...
...diverse on numerous levels—racial, sexual, religious, social, academic—and each of those qualities is crucial in the general makeup of the community. However, this same type of apathy towards diversity that led to the marginalization of Jewish students persists in campus discourse. Unlike the 1920s though, this apathy is manifested in students’ derogatory attitude—not University Hall policies—towards the importance of athletes...
...institution that focuses exclusively on academics; Harvard breeds an inordinate share of scholars and Nobel laureates, but it also promotes journalism, musicianship, politics, as well as athletics. The College admissions office should stick with the status quo and not alienate athletes as Lowell tried to alienate Jews back in 1920s. Athletes’ intensive work deserves to be appreciated and accepted in this community just as much as anyone else’s area of expertise. They deserve the respect received by any other Harvard student—and particularly the respect of their peers...
...version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...