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...prolific publisher. One of his big contributions to Yale's history department: development (along with his colleagues) of the "problem method," which stresses use of original sources instead of historical texts. Sample Mendenhall problem, fed to one class of freshmen: was the famous mot de Cam-bronne that French General Pierre Cam-bronne uttered near the end of the Battle of Waterloo really "The old guard dies, but never surrenders"-or was it simply "Merde!"? The frosh dutifully turned up evidence to back both mots...
...what is now Pakistan. General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., was glad to oblige, and before long he was able to send a progress report to his superiors. He did so, one legend has it, in a signal that represents one of history's more famous puns: "Pec-cam [I have sinned...
...sure. I don't like all the damn politicking that goes on around here, and I think it makes the fraternities look down on us even more. You're right, though--yeh, thanks, I will have some more--we are taking over the campus--Cam Club, IDC, the Herald...
Brother Joe, 47, who has been the cam's Paris-based roving reporter for the past year (TIME, July 8), will keep turning out the four-day-a-week Alsop column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, which sells it to 200 U.S. and foreign papers. He plans to write it from Washington five or six months a year and hire an assistant to write at least one capital column a week while he makes short Forays into other world news centers. The column, he cracked, will now "get all of one Alsop instead of halves...
...officer elections and dues to sustain the clubhouse. The Harvard Union offered speakers, pre-game rallies, post-game dances, debates, discussions--to its members. The restaurant and snack bar were open all week long, ladies were permitted on weekends, and professors--either guests or members--were welcome anytime. Since Cam- bridge was a no-license city, students had to go either to a final club or to Boston for beer and other "exhilating beverages." For returning alumni, the Union was to be a "Harvard Club of Cambridge," where undergraduates would meet with those "Who asked for the sunshine of their...