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This, unfortunately, seems to be part of the role of the athlete at Harvard--self-justification and disproof of the animal image--thrust upon him by a large number of his athletically apathetic and often cynical classmates. There is a definite tendency among the undergraduates and certain instructors almost self-consciously to separate the students into the two types, and, for those who want to be identified with the "intellectuals," to look down on the uncultured "jock." Although they may find this fun, they often take themselves seriously: certainly their attitude is immature and unfair, and more than likely results...
This, unfortunately, seems to be part of the role of the athlete at Harvard--self-justification and disproof of the animal image--thrust upon him by a large number of his athletically apathetic and often cynical classmates. There is a definite tendency among the undergraduates and certain instructors almost self-consciously to separate the students into the two types, and, for those who want to be identified with the "intellectuals", to look down on the uncultured "jock." Although they may find this fun, they often take themselves seriously: certainly their attitude is immature and unfair, and more than likely results...
...balloting was free and unbossed, and in sharp disproof of Communist charges that it was a French-sponsored fraud. In Hanoi, for instance, 17 of the 18 winners were strongly anti-French nationalists; the biggest vote went to a candidate who had spent six years in a French political internment camp on Madagascar. "Even in my dreams I didn't expect such popular success," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn...
Christian Krediet, a former student at Leyden University, describes the reaction of Dutch colleges to the "pacification" imposed by the Nazis. This resistance does not stop at grumbling. Articles such as Krediet's and those on British and Russian students is past issues of "Threshold" are striking disproof of the theory that "decadence" and "softness" fully describe young men and women in the United Nations...
...Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan : 1) A physician should never consent to use a relative as donor. Too many emotional complications may follow. 2) A donor's blood group should correspond to that of the husband so that legal disproof of the child's paternity is impossible without presentation of the double-signed agreement...