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...published three collections of plays and whose six widely praised volumes of poetry include the recently issued The Fortunate Traveller, currently holds a visiting professorship at Boston University. He said that in view of the controversy, he had canceled plans to accept an honorary degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., last weekend, because "I didn't want to embarrass any institution." Meanwhile, although Harvard's Dean Lewis told the complaining coed that her charges "had merit" and that "formal action" had been taken, Walcott said he had heard nothing further from the university about the matter...
From the ancient, white-gloved Harvard comparatively little remains. Some truly wonderful institutions survive-morning prayers in Appleton Chapel, for one, and ivy on the walls for another (though these days its grip is perilous). The clubs, they say, are resurgent, but most of the College would have trouble listing half of them by name. And Fox, Fly, Owl, Spee and their kindred are given over now more to fraternity-style carousing and less to gentility (though tuxedos remain de rigger). The preppie movement-the defiant wearing of madras and espadrilles-amounted to not so much...
DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...
Twenty-three members of the United Ministry--a group of representatives from several religions--will share the offices, which were built last summer in the basement of Appleton Chapel and include a conference room and a daycare center, Sally Adams, administrative assistant for the chapter said yesterday...
Comments--What can you say about this team except that the writer has to be Dick Dew? Oh, and that it plays in Appleton Arena up in Canton, N.Y. ALL-DIRTY, or, six guys you wouldn't want to meet in an alley...