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...steal rivals' notebooks to sabotage them on exams. There is unhealthy fretting: "How should I write my autobiography for Yale?" "How many pounds should I lose before Smith loves me?" "The kids are so scared that they've lost all humor," says one pessimistic teacher. "They con us for grades." says another. "I can almost see their minds at work wondering how to please me." Said one Philadelphia girl recently: "Daddy, it will be a relief when all I have to do is work for a living...
Next Wednesday has been set as a tentative target date for a fuller committee report. However, Washburn doubts that the investigators will be able to release "information that has been given fidential." He promised the committee's to us in confidence and must remain con-"vigilance" to any possible misconduct...
...lots of them. When I asked where they got the idea, they told me 'from the U.S.' " Unabashed, Jacob continues to push his Swiss model, with chalet-type gingerbread on the yodeling porch (a tiny balcony that forms the crossbar of the A), as well as the Con temporary, with all-glass end walls. Says he: "A lot depends on the banks. If they're as good to us as they were to the boat builders, we'll be launching A-frames like cabin cruisers...
...accordance with its experience on similar issues, the Bulletin expects several more alumni letters pro and con Bender...
...role in shaping Harvard would also be entirely eliminated--the Harvard-son group. . . It is certainly unlikely that (this) would help the major effort Harvard, like most all private colleges, is making to enlist the continuing moral and financial support of its alumni. Nevertheless, there are considerations, pro and con, on both the Harvard-son and the Boston issues, and it is regrettable that the special faculty report (in 1960) did not deal with these issues more comprehensively and more forthrightly...