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This year Balliol (pronounced BALE-yul) is seven centuries old, and it celebrated the birthday in a flurry of skyrockets, French cuisine and champagne toasts. On hand were 2,000 Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...
...Villa San Michele, just outside Florence, is a converted 15th century Franciscan monastery whose facade and grand loggia were designed by Michelangelo. Guests dine in the same refectory in which the ancient monks once broke bread. Its 32 rooms (all with private bath and telephone) run from about $17 to about $20 a day for full pension...
...Sundrum Castle, five miles southeast of Prestwick, was built before the 14th century, remodeled into a superb example of an 18th century baronial mansion. Set on a wooded hillside, its 160-acre site affords excellent facilities for shooting and salmon fishing. Guests dine on the very spot where manacled prisoners were once thrown to rot while the wicked barons feasted in an upstairs hall (now the ballroom). Its 24 rooms rent for a minimum of $4.50 a night...
...reader who cares to classify the book's learned asides will have enough abstruse anecdotes and arcane folklore to dine out on for a season at least...
...that Harvard will actually enact more conservative rules, but that the response of the Masters to Radcliffe's growing liberalism and self-confidence will be reactionary rather than cooperative. And it is in these terms that one may understand the Masters' rejection of proposals to let girls dine in the Houses more frequently. The Masters are not ready to reject explicitly Mrs. Bunting's-and President Pusey's-claim that Radcliffe is a full member of the Harvard community, but they have given their answer...