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Will school history books now be rewritten to conform with Eccles' research? Probably not. Said Historian J. W. Chafe, author of the Manitoba high-school text: "It's going to be tough to write textbooks if every character in history is going to be debunked...
Practical pranks occasionally chafe night watchmen, although they ordinarily laugh them off. Guy F. Martin, who has worked in most of the Houses, observes that when Spring comes Funsters take to throwing water; Bellboys and Deacons, fire crackers; and Gold Coasters, intermittent beer cans. But these never have bothered him any more than the ubiquitous winter snowballs. He recalls, however, being a bit upset on a Saturday night in the football season when Winthrop men overturned three fire extinguishers on him, each one as the preceding was being set aright. Yet, he adds, men staggering home from Cronin...
Though love repine and reason chafe...
...late famed Sigmund Freud was a 28-year-old nobody when he wrote to his fiancee: "I have just carried out one resolution which one group of people . . . will feel acutely . . . my biographers. I have destroyed all my diaries . . . Let the biographers chafe; we won't make it too easy for them. Let each one believe he is right in his 'Conception of the Development of the Hero': even now I enjoy the thought of how they will all go astray...
...there is a ma jority for having it." Yet it was the French who had first insisted on the complexities of the European Army, as their price for letting Germany rearm. Now many Frenchmen, including Marshal Juin, were coming to see that the chains that bind Germany would also chafe France...