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Fitzgibbons says, "I figured we were going to get hammered in this tournament so I memorized Physics I formulas and Baron's SAT word lists so I could horrify the opposition with susquepedalian phraseology. We were going to make them start whiffing over their inferior...
Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...
...event will feature a colloquium with two of America's most distinguished Judaic scholars, Salo W. Baron, professor emeritus of Jewish History at Columbia University, and Saul Lieberman, rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary...
Schmeruk's absence has no connection with the celebration this weekend of the establishment of Harvard's new Center for Jewish Studies. Likewise, two talks scheduled for Sunday are unrelated to this event. Not beginning at 1:30 Sunday afternoon in Science Center C, Salo Baron of Columbia will discuss "Problems of Jewish Identity From an Historical Perspective," and Saul Lieberman, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will not follow him with a schpiel on "The Achievements and Aspirations of Modern Jewish Scholarship...
...months Burger Baron Ray Kroc, 76, founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain, has been bedeviled by a rumor that he donates money to the Church of Satan, a San Francisco-based cult. "The most vicious thing I've ever heard and all lies," sputters Kroc. Nonetheless, on many fundamentalist Christians in the Southern and Midwestern Bible Belt, the rumor has had the impact of a Big Mac attack in reverse: they are boycotting McDonald's. So far, the protests have had a negligible effect, but just to make sure, McDonald's Executive Doug Timberlake last...