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TEXAS' SAM RAYBURN, 77, the 44th Speaker of the House, has held his office 14 years, far longer than any other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas...
...cited the rule by which he could -and did -put off civil rights hearings for a precious while. Recalls Smith, puffing on his old curved pipe: "I felt like a well-fed missionary at a cannibals' convention. They were really mad at me. I don't blame them a bit. I would have been mad had I been in their shoes...
Faculty stories, on the other hand, concern exam content; Gertrude Stein's bluebook is famous. Dear Professor James, it ran, I am sorry but I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today...
...unjust to leave Milton without speaking of his greatest work--and of a marvelous capsule analysis of the motivations of one of its characters. "Satan in Paradise Lost," one exam perceived, "is what Milton would have liked to have been if he hadn't gone blind." But then, this bit of biographical lore doesn't seem so bad when compared with the identification of Hogarth as Beowulf's grandfather...
Eventually the Program for Harvard College will have raised most of the money it wants, will have invested a good bit of it at a healthy interest rate, and will have spent the rest in improving undergraduate education. In all the discussion about the nature of this improvement, however, little serious thought seems to have been given to a re-evaluation of the objectives of the College...