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...Wrong People are munching away at their Broiled Pork Chops Or Alternate. Lorraine is squirting people with a squirt gun. The Wrong People talk about hockey and the Right People talk about English literature, but the scope of conversation at Eliot House dinner is always broad. The Wrong People encompass last night's House hockey game against Leverett, the Beanpot, and the Bruins. The Right People discuss who Professor Doe is sleeping with ("But I thought you knew-why that's the whole fun of taking John's course!"), what Professor Doe thinks of Ben Jonson, and who Ben Jonson...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Moving Day Goodbye, Eliot House | 2/4/1970 | See Source »

...guilt or battle wisdom in U.S. attitudes. There are, after all, millions of adult Americans who have fought from the Argonne to Inchon and carry their own private knowledge of the necessities -and the better-forgotten brutalities -of personal combat. It would be reassuring to think that these explanations encompass the opinions of those who appear to dismiss My Lai; the alternative is to contemplate an American adaptability carried to the point of callousness and barbarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bound to Happen? | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...main changes proposed by a committee of the board of directors and already approved by the ten stockholders encompass...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: Brass Tacks Coop Reform | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...main changes proposed by a committee of the board of directors and already approved by the ten stockholders encompass...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: Brass Tacks Coop Reform | 9/27/1969 | See Source »

...rather plainly needed. There is need also to reexamine the method of selection and tenure of the governing boards; the nature and extent of their responsibilities; and the relations between them, assuming that the historic bicameral structure is found to have continuing merit. The re-examination should also encompass the issue whether Harvard should create another central body,primarily representing faculty and students, to work with the governing boards and, if so, how it should be constituted and what role it should play with respect to various issues...

Author: By P. ), The City, and (wilson Committee, S | Title: The Overseers Look at Harvard | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

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