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Kissinger met with Harvard student Keith Raffel '71 and nine other student representatives from across the country in the Situation Room of the White House for two hours yesterday afternoon. But as is his custom, Kissinger stipulated that his remarks remain off the record...
...with his jibes at Nixon, Humphrey, Johnson, and other villains. But the remark which drew the loudest ovation was the one clothed in bloody rhetoric: "It's too bad we don't have a substitute for the medieval practice. Then, if you had counselor who gave bad advice, the custom was to execute them. The practice now is to give them welcome sanctuary in the academic community...
McCarthy said there was a medieval custom that counselors who gave bad advice were executed, "while now the practice seems to be to give them a welcome sanctuary in the academic community." He said, "Perhaps it's unfortunate the old custom has been discontinued...
Such being the case, we hope that the centennial year is to inaugurate the era of good feeling between Harvard and Yale. The duello is a custom instituted by gentlemen, and presupposes a code of honor. Duels are ever polite, for the consent of a gentleman to measure swords is in itself a compliment to his adversary, and implies a certain parity of position and sympathy of sentiment. We hope, then, that the future contests between Yale and Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly...
...writer in the CRIMSON tacitly assumes that the antiquity of the custom of class-tree exercises is the only argument in its favor. The intense radical spirit at present prevailing here, which says that all that is old in ways and beliefs is consequently wrong, and whatever new, right, would condemn this plea of antiquity as worse than none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises...