Letters

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: A Stethoscope, a Camera Lens, and a Batphone

This issue on journalism and media has felt more personal than most, particularly as we prepared for the retirement of editor Bill Holder ’75. While collecting stories of the journalists profiled in these pages, I’ve been considering: What are the traits and skills that outstanding journalists both …

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Letters: An Ally in Prof. Hatch, Remembering Manfred Stassen, Leadership in Population Health

It’s Good To Find An Ally In Associate Professor Hatch It was encouraging to read the Wesleyan magazine article, “Health Care and Racism: A Toxic Mix,” (2018, issue 1) concerning the work of Associate Professor of Sci…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

President’s Letter: Student Publications, Editorial Autonomy

“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer,” wrote Georg Friedrich Hegel. “One orients one’s attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the l…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

The question took me by surprise. I had just finished lecturing to about 75 undergraduates at Peking University on the virtues of American-style pragmatic liberal education. My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Edu…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN

Lately I’ve been exploring the devilish complexities of Medicare as I approach my 65th birthday and a time of change in …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018May 11, 2018

ROLE OF SAYRE (1917) IN AEP ACQUISITION I enjoyed your article on the history of Wesleyan but was disappointed with the rather cursory description of the University’s good fortune derived from the acquisition of the Ame…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 30, 2017

LETTERS

COULD THIS BE WHY? Looking back at Wesleyan sports over half a century ago, among the NEICAA champions I remember were broad jumpers Ernie Dunn ’59, Jim Thomas ’61, and Dick Huddleston ’60, miler Steve Paranya ’61, wres…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD P. WILBUR, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BY LARRY D. CARVER

Editor’s Note: The poet Richard Wilbur, a former professor of English at Wesleyan (1957-77), died in October at the age of 96. The following tribute was composed by Larry D. Carver ‘66 on the occasion of Mr. Carver’s 50t…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Across America, groups are enclosing themselves in bubbles that protect them from competing points of view, even from disturbing information. This has always happened to some extent; it’s easier to be with people who sha…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHY DID WESLEYAN ABANDON COEDUCATION IN 1909?

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignright" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor[/caption] I thought I knew the answer, and in my mind this odd twist in the history of a progressive institution arose from antag…