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Coddington comes to Harvard from Vanderbilt University, where he served as director of external affairs since 1966. Before that, he headed Princeton's summer studies program and did consulting work in education for the Reading Lab in Philadelphia. He began his academic career in 1950, teaching History and Philosophy at Wesleyan University...
Many experts gave both candidates low marks. Said Soviet Expert Adam Ulam of Harvard: "Neither one had any feeling for the terribly complex problems we have in dealing with Russia and the Communist countries. Much of the debate was nothing more than posturing." Added Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard: "Both candidates tended to make debating points in a way that raised doubts about the political-education value of these debates...
...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...
Positive Signs. One way that the South can help to reverse the brain drain to the North, suggest both Hackney and Heard, is to better integrate its universities. At Tulane only 5% of the 5,000 students are black; at Vanderbilt the percentage is even lower: 4% of 6,900 students. At both universities the black students are unwelcome in fraternities and sororities and do not join the mainstream of campus life. Yet even that degree of integration represents a revolutionary change in race relations over the past decade...
Young Converts. Smith is concerned that racial inequities are now being overlooked because the more blatant signs of discrimination are past. "Whites simply don't pay much attention to blacks," he observes. He himself is assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School (the first black in the seminary's administration), but he notes that "it is difficult to get seminaries to take into account that black Christians existed and do exist." Smith is disappointed that some young blacks have become converts to other religions-the Black Muslims, for instance. Still, he believes that in the South the number...