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ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.
Arthur schlesinger and my husband, Tom Campion, were two of the few Democrats in the class of 1938. At their fifth reunion, Arthur gave a talk in praise of FDR. Some classmates even booed. The cool historian remained unfazed.
At their fifty-fifth reunion, Arthur began his talk by saying, “Before we all depart for that great library in the sky….” I like to think the learned, witty star of Harvard ’38 is enjoying his new library card.
Nardi Reeder Campion
Lebanon, N.H.
ERRATA
The editors are grateful to readers for pointing out these reporting errors in the May-June issue. Bovine growth hormone (“Modern Milk,” page 11) is not fed to cows but “is given by subcutaneous injection at biweekly intervals,” Robert J. Collier writes. Rupert Pole’s cabin, where he lived with Anaïs Nin (“The College Pump,” page 80), was not in the Sierra Madres, Jerome M. Garchik, J.D. ’70, observes. It was in Sierra Madre, a town north of Pasadena in the San Gabriel mountains. Arthur D. Levin ’54, M.B.A. ’60, notes that Frances D. Fergusson, Ph.D. ’73, received her undergraduate degree in 1965 from Wellesley, not Harvard. Jean Higgins writes that a sidebar on ice hockey on page 73 refers to the “Patty Kazmeier Award,” but the correct spelling is “Kazmaier.” In “Keeping the Vibes” (page 63), Milman Parry’s first name was given an extra “l.”
RUSSIAN—AND U.S.—INSTINCTS
Professor timothy colton (“The Enigmatic Mr. Putin,” May-June, page 40) provides a very perceptive and excellent review of Russia and Putin. The significant final sentence is: “We will have a modest chance to influence Russia’s developmental choices, if this time around we can imagine a place for it in the global community in which its worst instincts are restrained and its best instincts are encouraged.” To this I would like to add three words: “and our own.”
J. Richard Warbasse, M.D. ’54
Westover, Md.
IT’S CIVILIANS WHO CHOOSE
It is unfortunate that a drawing of a U.S. Army officer with hawk and dove accompanied Harbour Fraser Hodder’s otherwise informative “Willing to War” (May-June, page 15). Unless I missed the coup d’état, in the United States democratically elected civilian leaders make the decisions to take our nation to war. Civilian leaders also generally lead high-level negotiations on behalf of our country. When will this misconception end that suggests that America’s military chooses America’s wars?
Ralph L. Erickson, M.D., M.P.H. ’89
Columbia, Md.
SANGER DIDN’T SAY THAT
In your excerpt, “An Earlier Bid for Mastery,” of a book by Michael J. Sandel (May-June, page 25), Sandel quotes my grandmother, Margaret Sanger, as saying, “More children from the fit, less from the unfit—that is the chief issue of birth control.” My grandmother never said this. The quote comes from a 1919 editorial in American Medicine that followed an article by my grandmother. This quotation has been falsely attributed to Margaret Sanger for decades. One would have thought that Bass professor of government Sandel and your editors would have checked the original source material. Is that what they supposedly teach at Harvard?
Alexander Sanger
Chair, International Planned Parenthood Council
New York City
PRIZE PIECES
CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, conferred a silver medal in its alumni magazine “Best Articles of the Year” competition on deputy editor Craig Lambert’s March-April 2006 cover story on behavioral economics. Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow John A. La Rue ’07 won a bronze medal for his January-February 2006 column on the College’s dorm crew—unprecedented recognition for a student writer. And contributor Debra B. Ruder won the American Medical Writers Association 2007 Martin Award for writing for lay audiences for her January-February 2006 feature, “Life Lessons.” We salute this talented trio.
~The Editors
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