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...have some place for mailing letters that would be more convenient than the Post-Office. Why should not an official letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some persons have expressed a fear that our embryo Thomassens would exercise their boyish propensities for mischief on the letter-box instead of on the much-enduring drain; but public opinion against their wanton mischief would be much stronger if our own personal convenience were to be interfered with. To obtain this improvement, it would, we suppose, be necessary to present a petition...
This view of the case has been set forth before, and is, perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...
...cheering and the singing of the Class Song no one surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true: but it is so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest...
President Nixon's favorite Shakespeare is Frank-the aggressive TV executive who became head of the U.S. Information Agency in 1969. Last week blond, boyish Frank Shakespeare, 45, unminced some words about the occasionally strained relations between USIA and the State Department. "Secretaries of State," he said, William Roqers take note, "have for too long been lawyers trained to negotiate quietly and announce only the results. But the world has gone well beyond that. So I come out as an advocate of the U.S. Government, taking advantage of communications in its foreign policy." As for the Russians: "Very effective...
...never a Harvard undergraduate like all previous presidents (he was an undergraduate at Stanford), he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and has been on the faculty since 1958. He is respected within his specialty of labor law and is experienced as a strike negotiator, but he is boyish enough in outlook to have attempted to organize a faculty basketball team. Last year he co-authored a book on U.S. unions with the man who turned out to be his closest rival in the presidential deliberations, Harvard Labor Economist John Dunlop. Recently Bok turned down presidential feelers from Dartmouth...