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...cold and wet afternoon, suitable only for ducks and midshipmen, Navy could throw up only token resistance to the Crimson nine-run, fifteen-hit barrage...
...principals was showing around color snapshots of his marijuana farm out in the woods. The plants looked to be five or six feet high. There was what later looked like a laundry bag full of grass from the farm somewhere around. Three or four joints were always circling among fifteen people, so one passed every five seconds. There was potato salad, lasagna, big loaves of bread, a huge salad, cases of beer, coca-cola, and other things proper to a feast. More people stopped...
When his American teammates proposed the normal noon-time nourishment for red-blooded Americans, McDonald's, Crimson center Adrian Tew, the sole Englishman in Harvard's fifteen, reminded them of their manners (quitting the field and the Princeton-Columbia game in progress in favor of the Big Mac constitutes the height of discourtesy) and their morals with a resounding an swer: "Eat beer...
...part at least, the Nixon administration's campaign to change the public mind. "And it's worked," Altman commented, "even with younger people, the Nixon campaign has worked much more than we sense. The whole attitude of the country has taken an aesthetic back-step of about fifteen years...
Since then, the Faculty changed the Committee of Fifteen into the harsher Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which became the focus of student protests when it disciplined protesters, and then, as student protests died, pretty much withered away. The Faculty Council now does most of the Faculty's legwork quietly and efficiently, and has become completely apolitical. Just last week, the council cancelled a scheduled Faculty meeting because there would have been nothing to discuss; it was the second meeting to be cancelled in the last three months. And when the Faculty does meet, it is back...