RIP Harry Livingstone

[Dawn Meredith]

Livingstone is totally correct about Harvard Extension. It is at night, many of the professors are Harvard professors, and some are from Boston University, Boston College, and Radcliffe. All great colleges. And yes anyone can sign up and go. This was all spelled out in the will of Harvard's founder. I completed Harvard Extension in three years (73-76) and I have a HARVARD degree, that says "Harvard University" at the top. Many classes in law are offered, so that may be what he meant by stating he studied law. I took at least six myself as I knew I wanted to apply to law school. My three letters of recommendation were all from Harvard professors _ Regie Healey with whom I took several summer school seminars in law and received A's. A second was from Prof Walter McCann, who was head of the graduate school of Education at Harvard. He also taught a legal class in which I received an A. The third was Sophie Freud Lowenstein, who taught a summer seminar in psych. (Also received an A). The summer classes I took were at Harvard itself, not via the extension program. The classes and level of intellectual ability expected at the Extension school were the same as Harvard's day college. The sole difference was that the classes in the evening were far less expensive, in keeping with the wishes of the school's founder.

Although I have this book, I did not remember him discussing Harvard extension or Lifton being critical.

Dawn