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...American art, social memory can surface in odd, oblique ways. There is no big commemorative painting--or none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This...
...really glad to get accepted to Princeton too," says another Harvard legacy. "One likes to feel merit did it, not history...
...work on the preservation of Italian Art, Freedberg was made Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1982, Italy's highest honor for a non- National...
...staff's endorsement of an affirmative action policy is their most misguided step. They seem willing to sacrifice the quality of this University in order to combat a prejudice that does not exist. A candidate's merit should be Harvard's only criterion for hiring. Once the University goes beyond merit in hiring professors, they do a disservice to every student who expects the highest caliber of education available. We have faith that there is an abundance of exceptional female academics who, based on this criteria alone, will have no trouble securing places at this institution...
...MERIT Award] is not quite where the Nobel Prize is but it's certainly well respected within the scientific community," Weber says...