Word: escutcheon
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...Wake Up and Think” formulated this reaction to a suggestion that seniors rather than “faculty men” advise freshmen: “If the University is to make any real progress in cleaning the grimy spot of Freshman Advising from its escutcheon, something more better than seniors, who are interested in their own problems [and] out of touch with the Yard … will have to be found...
...College is now five terms into the most recent attempt to improve things. Are there reasons to be hopeful? Are things getting better? Have we finally at least begun to clean the grimy spot of not only freshman but of all advising from our collective escutcheon? Or are we just deluding ourselves...
...have a hidden agenda (like the Protocols of the Elder Zion that anti-Semites cite) to destroy the American family. They--we, I mean--are sinful, immoral, sick. The Christian Coalition had Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 come out from Harvard, Veritas glittering from his escutcheon, to testify in support of their crusade, and they...
...Harvard was a beacon to other universities," said David Riesman '31. Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, in an interview last week. "There may have been some smudges on the escutcheon, but it was a handsome escutcheon nonetheless...
Still, these "smudges on the escutcheon" only serve to throw the more honorable University actions into ironic relief, for Harvard's actions can probably be judged better than those of many other American universities. Many other schools fired professors who invited the Fifth Amendment. Harvard expressed its disdain but in most cases allowed the professors to stay on. Until more information emerges, the best measure of Harvard's actions may be a study which Riesman conducted in 1955. "I found that what really mattered was the atmosphere among the scholars. People at Harvard at least felt free to do whatever...