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...Eliot House Master John H. Finley ’25 also voiced his opposition to the CEP at its Jan. 7, 1953 meeting, arguing that gifted students could be given more flexibility within a four-year program by being placed in advanced courses from their first year, but without heading towards what he feared would become a credit-hour system of education...
According to a Crimson article from March 1956, Kennedy, Beatty and William E. Crosby ’56 defeated Eliot House in an inter-House debate league, arguing effectively against a proposition that Kennedy has supported throughout his Senate career—school integration...
...DIED. ROGER STRAUS JR., 87, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent co-founder of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...
...Boss's Cut New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is determined to bring CEOS' salaries down from the stratosphere...
Wall Street would love to see Eliot Spitzer realize his immediate political ambitions--becoming, say, Governor of New York or possibly landing a role in a Kerry Administration. Not that financial types wish him well; they just wish he would move on. As New York's attorney general, Spitzer, 44, has pushed through reform of stock-research and investment-banking practices, lobbied for a reduction in mutual-fund fees and left a trail of disgraced executives in his wake. Spitzer carved another notch in his belt last week. After drawn-out negotiations, Richard Strong, the former chief executive of Strong...