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...Yale's Aurelian Honor Society--an organization of 15 seniors--recently issued a 13-page report entitled "Academic Indifference at Yale." As the title indicates, the report criticizes the University. It also, however, offers some interesting--and provocative---solutions to the problems it poses...
...week by the common fate of all men. The event was so big that only the simplest words could form his epitaph: he was the most powerful man of his time-the most feared and hated. He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...honor societies--Torch and Aurelian --also pay homage to what one professor called "the outstanding guys." For their 30 or so members, it is a rather pleasant relationship, with a luncheon every week and a few lectures and projects. But they are coveted far beyond their value or necessity on the Yale scene...
Although President Seymour, a Bones man, has expressed his liking for a hands-off administration policy, other university higher-ups as well as many secret society men outside Bones have been concerned about the problem. When a dozen Torch and Aurelian Honor Society juniors drew up a statement last week deploring present Tap Day procedure and urging an inter-society council to work out a solution, one administration official sent copies of the statement to powerful society alumni representatives...
...among the speakers was Calvin Coolidge, nor did newsgatherers hear him say anything more quotable than: "I've lost my wife" (at preliminary ceremonies in the State House). He did, however, mention the celebration in his nationally syndicated Marco-Aurelian commentary for that day, as follows: "Never before were the rights of man advanced so far in three centuries...