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...Harvard (graduated from Berkeley in 1935) and appears lacking in much of the polish traditionally associated with the Harvard administration. Coming into the deanship in the middle of restructuring debates and Faculty power struggles, his blunt manner has been his greatest virtue. In departmental meetings, he's been blunt and open enough to gain the trust of widely divergent Faculty groups...
...blunt, I am embarrassed for you Certainly there's room for constructive criticism of Yale- as well as of Harvard. But the best "revenge" the Yalie Daily could have against you for that article would be to reprint its full text in their next issue. David L. Miller, Yale...
...reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
However, Dartmouth does have the option with Harvard, by the terms of a contract signed in 1960, to invite the Crimson to play at Hanover on the even-numbered years. Referring to the contract, Peters said, "I know this sounds quite blunt, but, if we could have asked Harvard to come here last year for this fall, they would have had no choice...
Strikes may seem to be the last thing that the U.S. needs when it is struggling to regain price stability and social peace, but it was by wielding that blunt weapon that labor won its largest gains in the past. It is ironic that blue collar workers are suspicious of today's social disruptions; labor often created the disturbances of yesteryear, and they helped the workingman to come a long way from the bad old days. As late as 1900, seven-year-old boys worked in the mines of Pennsylvania, and girls of six helped run the mills...