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Actually, Roosevelt was a good, though not a spectacular, Crimed. His fellow editors remember him variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a man with "remarkable capacity for dealing genially with people...
...best known story of F.D.R.'s "democracy" in college concerns his supposed reform of the class elections in his senior year. For years the class day officers had been drawn from the select clubs, which were better organized for political maneuvering than the mass of the student body. A year or two earlier changes in the election procedure had been proposed, and F.D.R. continued, rather than originated, the campaign. "There is a higher duty than to vote for one's personal friends," he admonished his classmates, "and that is to secure for the whole class leaders who really deserve...
Though not an outstanding scholar, Roosevelt did well enough to make Phi Beta Kappa, and probably could have done even better had he tried harder in subjects he considered boring. His best marks came in natural history, where he consistently scored in the high eighties or nineties. His only flunks came in Greek (58) and French 4 (51). His averages for each of his four years here were competent, but not spectacular--75, 87, 82, and 78. He did not write a thesis for honors, but he gained the final ranking of 21st in a graduating class of 161. This...
This morning the unfortunate Lampoon candidate who slugged the Lampoon's Santa Claus will be arraigned before the Cambridge Court. There is no question but that the case should be dismissed. Presumably the charge will be disturbing the peace; the Square is so untranquil at best that a silly affair like this was a ripple on the seething surface. Once the Lampoon has reimbursed the poor bystander whose glasses were demolished, the case should be dropped...
...dismissal would have several practical advantages aside from its merits. It would soothe relations between Harvard students and the forces of law and order in Cambridge, which are uncordial at best. These relations have not been eased any by the patrolman's assurances that he would have shot the candidate down if he had had a clear shot. If the city administration attempts, as it may, to equate the Lampoon's prank with the death of the MIT fraternity pledge and tries to make an example of the poor Poonie, hostility between town and gown will reach the level attained...