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...Manhattan's Animal Medical Center, wryly points out that you can own a cat and even be an American. While the dog may be the unofficial national pet, he says, "Americans are known for their laissez-faire attitude. These characteristics define the cat." Chicago Pet Shop Owner Donna Dunlop adds: "It's not just children and the elderly who have cats, it's young professionals in their 30s who are getting them." The inconvenience of owning a dog in a city, where apartment sizes have shrunk and pooper-scooper laws make the litter pan look like...
Perhaps, too, the cat, regal and precise, aloof and alone, reflects the preferred-or enforced-situation of the record 23% of American households where single adults dwell. "Cats are a perfect way out of urban alienation," says Dunlop. And behind bars, the cat softens hard-time sentences. Some prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory in Virginia keep up to five cats at once. Says Charles E. ("Itchy") Richardson, 30, who is serving ten to 40 years for burglary: "Cats teach you what some dudes down here can't understand. They give you love. They don't talk back...
...Meselson, also a biochemist, advocated a "Great Books House," where all the residents follow the same freshman year curriculum, and Dean of Admissions L. Fred Jewett '57 told of wiles and intrigues of past Harvard applicants. The former secretary of labor and former Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop told of mediating a dispute between Rosovsky and former Law School Dean Albert Sacks over the use of athletic facilities...
...will be no reason to assume its routine will be any different. Members of the council do come and go; roughly a third of its 18 seats turn over each year. Once in a while, a big change takes place. In 1973, for example, Henry Rosovsky replaced John T. Dunlop as Dean of the Faculty and chairman of the council. But for the most part, the Faculty Council remains, consolidating its power, institutionalizing its presence, quietly making the decisions that shape College life for today's students and determine what the Harvard experience will mean for students perhaps a decade...
January 14--Dunlop resigns as secretary of Labor and returns to Harvard...