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...spontaneously advanced to the podium (which was not more than ten paces from the chairs of the President and Fellows), and mercifully deprived the speaker of his free speech by escorting him to the sidelines. I do not now recall whether any of the marshals touched the speaker's elbow in their assault upon him, but I am quite sure that neither the President nor any of the Fellows advanced one step or said one word to protect the free speech of the person they had invited to take the stand. They most certainly should have let him have...

Author: By Museum OF Comparative zoology, Allen E. Greer, and Resident TUTOR In biology, S | Title: COMMENCEMENT '69 | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

...exciting Monday at Elbow Beach, where we kicked off College Week, to see a guy in Bermuda shorts and sunglasses walking around with a Crimson Travel portfolio under his arm. Suddenly we were upon him, chewing him out for 20 minutes...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...what of Flip? Bermuda was none of those things for Flip, who met Mary on his 23rd birthday. He called her pirate's treasure (a sunken chest). but Flip thought a lot of her. Drinks at the Terrace, dancing at Elbow, and then romantic walks at Horseshoe Bay. This girl Mary could even keep up with Flip and his quick bike. The week moved toward a climax, and Flip talked to her in terms of future get-togethers. Then came the big last night, and Mary flashed her engagement ring at Flip. Think what Bobby Vinton could do with material...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...next day we set up Skytop stayed. We killed it with my Crimson Travel except we offered our services free. We put up ads all over the Elbow Beach Hotel announcing our tours by motorbike of "the island's finest beaches." Gas was free, as was jellyfish repellant, and we said we'd give body surfing instruction even though our timing was off by about five seconds. Maureen was the first to call, and others did later, but Skytop boss man Harry just wrote down the messages and never gave them to us. So we never gave the tours...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...Penn's Karl Thornton was catching up in the last lap." he said, his voice growing in enthusiasm. "As Thornton passed him, he gave him some kind of elbow, a legal elbow, and put him out into the fourth lane. Enscoe won it easily after that. It was an incredible race...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Jon Enscoe Saw Harvard and Ran | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

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