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...would you be...without me doing your fights...? Yes, I made you." Trying to interview Sandy Koufax on short notice, he says, "Sandy, you were just a damned snit from Brooklyn sitting in the corner of the dugout surrounded by the great ones when I first met you. You owe me this...
What a great debt we all owe to the great philosophers! Yet, to be candid about it, in these great times who needs another great debt? For the wisdom of men like Rousseau, Nietzsche, Hegel tends to be preserved in sedimentary chapters of books more likely to be found in the attic than on the coffee table. Lives there a middlebrow who does not resent the great philosophers...
Although many projects she plans for the OWE will have to wait until after the appointment of its director. Arthurs said that the office will function as an "ongoing, undramatic, insistent and assertive advocacy group for women." She explained that the OWE will work on small investigative projects and liaison efforts to "identify the points where women can exert pressure on the University...
...OWE'S initial projects will be a study of the distribution of women in academic concentrations, and of how departments in which women are under-represented treat their female members. Arthurs said that her office will work closely with secondary schools to encourage women with natural aptitude in mathematics, economics and the natural sciences to pursue their interests. Simultaneously. Arthurs said, the office will work with Harvard departments so that (1) female applicants with these interests will choose Harvard over colleges such as Stanford or Yale which already have special programs, and (2) once here, they will continue...
Arthurs said that through OWE-initiated projects and through studying Radcliffe's archives, the colleges administrators will study the experience of Radcliffe students and their career patterns after college. However, these studies may only serve to satisfy their curiosity, she said. "I expect the really concrete things will come out of Harvard's Office of Instructional Research since it now collects the same information on women as on men," she explained. "We have stopped asking questions just about Radcliffe students: it doesn't help us to know how many women graduated magna or summa unless we know how many...