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After reading The Harvard Crimson article of Friday, October 17th regarding Klitgaard's preliminary report on the performance of students at Harvard, and President Bok's reply in the Boston Globe, as a member of the Third World community at Harvard I feel compelled to respond...
...prominent Polish émigré" says that Marx "would not believe his eyes" if he saw workers revolting against their Communist government? Marx would have quit even looking at 20th century man's feeble attempts at Communism long ago-after so many Stalins, purges, Gulags, 17th of Junes, Prague springs, Cultural Revolutions, democratic Kampucheas and Berlin Walls. If the "Communists" of Eastern Europe bore even a resemblance to what Marx had intended, I doubt that I and thousands of other G.I.s would need to be in West Germany...
Cambridge prospered in the late 17th and early 18th century, largely a result of the influential people drawn by the College. And Cantabrigians, Sutton reports, "delighted in a display of wealth... They built mansions and created manicured landscapes, planted with exotic trees and shrubs imported from England and France." Certain of the settlers could even be accused of bad taste: Winthrop House, on the corner of Bow and Arrow streets, "became the gay social center of the pre-Revolutionary days" in spite, or perhaps because, of "two life-sized wooden figures of Indians in paint and feathers and armed with...
...YORK--Michael Sovern, who was inaugurated the 17th president of Columbia University Sunday, takes office with strong faculty and alumni backing, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported...
UMass completed the scoring with a final tally in the 17th minute...