Could privatizing public schools improve education? by Paul E. Peterson The making of a "routine" speech that reshaped the postwar world by John T. Bethell The European consequences of Marshall's vision by Charles S. Maier Brief life of a Boston philanthropist: 1890-1978 by Mark Gelfand Six faculty members burrow deep within Widener on expeditions historical, literary, and scientific The extraordinary life--half in light, half in darkness--of Gordon Gund by Craig Lambert Achieving women, provosts exiting and entering, rerigging the Core, pushing and pulling on final clubs, fanfare for the Jazz Band, applications ebb for an enlarged College class, charges mount in book theft, undergraduate teachers and tutors, sports wrap-up