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...American Experience in China, 1911-1945 came through Radcliffe at a time when women weren't allowed on The Crimson A alter J. Bate'39. Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the Humanities, who won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1964 (John Keats) was too busy studying undergraduate to comp for The Crimson. And obviously with a certain amount of snobbery, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, didn't bother to comp...
...dozen yards further down Plympton Street to have a hamburger at Tommy's Lunch. I lost 10 pounds my freshman year at Radcliffe and my mother always attributed this to the virtues of exercise, walking from Radcliffe to Harvard, but it was simply because every night of my comp I had a 50 cent hamburger at the Waldorf, not having the time or energy to go back to Radcliffe and come back in time to report for duty. The Sheldons, the Shaws and all those fellowships that I have never been able to keep straight that were more or less...
Hollywood has rarely made a film on a political subject that is both socially accurate and respectful of human dignity. So it's no wonder that American audiences have come to expect superficial cynicism as the acceptable tone of "progressive" American filmmaking efforts; leave Tolstoy to the comp lit classroom, leave the values of foreign filmmakers as diverse as Godard, Pontecorvo, or Costa-Gavras to their one-shot or arthouse audiences...
Past editors construed a rule in the Lampoon constitution stipulating that two consecutive executive boards had to approve any "radical change" in the organization to mean that women could not "comp" for admission to the humor "fraternity", Siegelman said...
...that the fact that one of our writers enters the thesis squad next month and another accepts the responsibilities of editing, and you see that we need help. Hopefully, tomorrow's winter comp will solve our problems...