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Some of the student community most distinguished intellectual leaders have gotten eyestrain trying to read under the inadequate lighting in Lamont toilets. What more effective way to remedy this evil than for 4500 undergraduates to storm up the steps of Emerson Hall--or wherever the Administration is--shouting, "Might makes light! Might makes light...
...part, the tobacco industry adopted an advertising code that forbids associating cigarettes with sex appeal, social charm or manliness. But this was not enough for Emerson Foote, an ex-adman who made a fortune out of peddling cigarettes before he changed sides and began to crusade against smoking with a convert's zeal. Incredibly, he urged the tobacco companies to stop advertising altogether. Foote has just moved in as chairman of the Interagency Council...
...which took 52 days to reach Boston. The society grew rapidly, until by the late 1850s it was more than 700 voices strong. Not a historical event passed in old Boston that the society did not commemorate with a concert, featuring such speakers as Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Arnie Palmer was picked for the long irons, Bobby Nichols for the middle irons, Ken Venturi for the short irons, Billy Casper for putting. The palm for fairway woods went to South Africa's Gary Player-which is a little like naming Australia's Roy Emerson to an All-America tennis team because he won the Davis Cup. Tony Lema took the pitching-wedge award, although he left his wedge in the bag and did most of his pitching with a No. 7 iron when he won the British Open...
...organizations will have no more success in overcoming official indifference than their predecessors--or their successors. They may not even have the HCUA's limited utility. The HCUA's recent "fact sheets"--on the lighting in Sanders and Emerson, on the degree of security in University records-keeping, and on teaching in lower-level language courses--have been helpful research jobs. It is questionable whether the Harvard Undergraduate Council, to be composed solely of House Committee chairmen, would find time to investigate such matters...