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...Institute's technical training is undeniably rigorous, and to obtain his education the M.I.T. student must put in a good deal more time and effort than his Harvard counterpart. But the atmosphere of hard work which pervades the Institute periodically causes a reactionary movement. Then the high-jinks of the M.I.T. undergraduates once more make the Boston papers...
...release of the Design School's report on expansion has served to highlight one of the greatest short-comings in University operation--the absence of informed long-term planning. The very fact that this study has no official counterpart indicates the University's traditional attitude towards such efforts...
...Amherst student takes his work more seriously that does his Harvard counterpart, Donald C. McKay, former professor of History, claimed, as he gave reasons for abandoning his professorship here for a similar position at Amherst...
Only Mario Celi, the team's most improved player, managed to halt some of B.C.'s rapid attacks, frequently with solid body-checking. His counterpart, hefty Don Fox, was Boston College's standout as he combined careful defensive work with occasional solo attempts, three of which were stopped only by goalie Flynn...
Soviet emissaries lead him into a web of indiscretion with their caviar, theater tickets, and Paris dresses for his wife. And there is also the Burgess counterpart of this story-Kevin Chalmers-whose chichi accent is cruelly transcribed: "I'd just had about four gallons of a positively toxic firedamp called a Gibson ..." Chalmers is not only a drunk who has been kicked out of the British embassy in Washington (as was Burgess), but a pervert and a brawler. Chance, security officers, and their own folly put him and Gleave in the same boat, headed for anonymity and dishonor...