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Colonel Laurence E. Bunker '26, will speak on "Academic Freedom at Harvard and the Stated Objectives of the Veritas Foundation" Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson A. The talk is being sponsored by the Harvard Eisenhower Club...
Eliot D. Bernat '60, president of the Club, has tried for a month to interest at least one, hopefully two, members of the Faculty in a forum-type discussion with two men from the Veritas Committee with Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer on History, as moderator. None of those contacted wished to participate, however...
Thus arises the paradox of the representative becoming divorced from the group he is supposed to represent. Even as a leader in his activity, the student-leader represents the members of his club only while they are in the club building; once out of it, the two groups are again servered...
...takes a while, however, for the student-leader to note that no matter how hard he may be working to represent his fellows, no one really considers him his representative. The feeling that no one appreciates what he is doing (and this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader...
...Lady's Not for Burning has a certain grandeur of language and sentiment, of metaphor and tone. The Harvard Dramatic Club has added a grandeur of production. The first hint of a truly fine performance comes even as the curtain rises on a massive, more or less gothic set admirably suited to Fry's time direction: "1400 more or less exactly...