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Five years ago Nathan M. Pusey because President of Harvard University, and for five years his philosophy of education has been the object of both praise and doubt. At the present time the doubt has centered in a vehement and disorganized discussion on the proper use of Memorial Church, a discussion which has clouded the larger issues more than it has clarified them...
...When Nathan Marsh Pusey took over the presidency of Harvard five years ago, he was a new broom that swept in religion. An even newer if considerably smaller broom is now trying to sweep some of it out again. Pusey and his emphasis on religion were being breezily challenged by a second-year graduate student in philosophy, William Warren Bartley III ('56). Vehicle of his attack: an 8,000-word Crimson article on Harvard's "button-down hair shirt...
...want to think about those sordid things," writes Nathan Leopold. He may have written this memoir partly to help ease his burden of guilt about "those things," though the book reads less like a cathartic confession than the garrulous, sometimes querulous recollections of a man who had all the time in the world and seems to think that his audience has as much...
Food was good; the "screws" (guards) were, within limits, kind, Nathan Leopold, 19 years old when he entered prison, did service as a malaria guinea pig. increased his knowledge of foreign languages to 27, and acquired the elements of, or at least a desire for. religious faith. But readers may well feel that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about...
...Nathan Leopold says he sometimes wished that he had been condemned to death rather than allowed to live his long life through. At this point, the reader will feel a twinge of uncommon pity for this twice-doomed man who, at 53, has emerged into the world-or at least into a career as an X-ray technician in a Puerto Rico mission hospital, where, hoping that this book and his crime may some day be forgotten, he claims the charity of silence...