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Wars and other major calamities are not the only tests of the business office's adaptability. One of its tasks is the processing of expense accounts. Lucy remembers the writer on safari "who billed us for luggage eaten by a crocodile." The chit was honored, perhaps in recognition of the writer's creativity...
House Masters have approved a proposal of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) allocating a total of $135,000 for a meal pool to the 13 Houses. Each meal eaten by a tutor will deduct $1.65 from the pool of his House...
...even expected. I could wear blue jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial dilemmas...
Food covered the floor of the cell. One of the U.S. marshals in an adjacent room explained that lunch had been served earlier, and that there had not been enough time to clean up before our arrival. We had not eaten for 24 hours. With 75 of us packed into this small room containing a single bench with seating capacity of 25, I was feeling nauseous at best...
...forcible exclusion of an idea. One great strength of an academic community is that its members, not being publicly accountable for what they say as teachers or students, are free to engage in "irresponsible" speculation, Should Jonathan Swift have been punished for his Modest Proposal that Irish babies be eaten to alleviate famine? Bad ideas should be permitted to fall of their own weight, or to provoke better ideas. We believe that the proper purpose of an academic community is to permit people, to the greatest possible extent, to stand outside society in order to judge it better. In such...