The dismal legacy of Chuck Schumer and Harvard's class of '71
The university has been transformed from an institution encouraging free enquiry to one seeking to inculcate a message
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
“The worst class ever”: that’s how Nathan Pusey, Harvard’s then-president, described my undergraduate cohort of 1971.
With a half century’s leisure to contemplate that bitter judgment, I’ve concluded that he was just about right. Of course, one can’t be sure, as no one can know all of Harvard’s 385 graduating classes. I can assert, however, that ours was not just feckless in college — what Mr. Pusey observed and condemned — but in the 50 years since, when it actively joined in the degradation of American higher education and culture.