by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. One minute I was walking home through Harvard Square, savoring the exceptionally good meal I had just finished. The next minute, there were three or four boys peering down at me saying, “Sir, sir, are you alright?” I recognized this voice, the special tone Harvard students reserve for …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire Voltaire was that most inconvenient of people… a man who had something to say, something that often riled his neighbors and outraged the conventions. Worse, at whatever cost he would …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. You are about to read a story that will, if you have a particle of gallantry about you, make you see red… It is the story of a Yale grid iron hero, quarterback Patrick Witt, and how a bunch of pettifogging bureaucrats forced him to make an invidious …
Who is Dr. Jeffrey Lant? Jeffrey Lant published his first article at age 5. An afternoon newsboy, he started his own newspaper at age 10, sold stock and, yes, paid dividends! Even then media and communications intrigued him. This has never stopped! Editor of his high school newspaper, editor of his class book, editor of …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s note: Michael Ignatieff and I were classmates at Harvard University. We were in the same “track” together, Modern European History. Each week for a year (1969-1970) we gathered for the colloquium which enabled H. Stuart Hughes, chairman of the History Department, to scrutinize us and decide who would advance to …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant My Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood, where the soaring steeple of Harvard’s Memorial Church is so prominent, reminding us of the eternity to come, is today in mourning for a man of God, of grace, and an affability so distinctive it was his own special concoction, enjoyed by all. The Reverend Peter Gomes …