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...hundred fifty-two years ago America elected its first President. But many years before that, in 1638, Harvard College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...
...means it intends to use in making the vote effective, but the precedents of Harvard's liberal policy toward its students make it probable that the cruder forms of police power will not be used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale glibness and vague answers to specific questions will betray students who have not done their own work. This method of detection has already proved successful...
Hanford also drew attention to the official college regulation that reads: "No student shall refuse to give his name to an officer of the University. A student shall deliver his Bursar's card to an officer of the University on request...
They had reached the Common when the proctors, the Yard cops, and the police arrived on the scene and revived the ancient and honorable custom of collecting Bursar's cards...
...dinner will be informal and admission will be by Bursar's card only. As the dining hall only holds 350 people the committee has announced a "first come, first served" policy. The doors will open at 6:15 and there will be only one sitting. The doors will be reopened again at 7 o'clock to allow all other Seniors to hear the speeches...