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Appropriate Response. Stanford has borne its share of dissenters, but President Richard Lyman, a longtime public foe of the Viet Nam War, felt that Franklin had gone too far. Charging that the heckling incident "strikes at the university's obligation to maintain itself as an open forum." Lyman recommended that the faculty advisory board suspend Franklin without pay for one academic quarter...
Coleman, wrestling at 142 pounds, pinned his afternoon opponent, Stu Morrison of New Hampshire, at 5:40. He returned last night to face Massachusetts' Clay Jester. After a scoreless first period, Coleman shot out to a 8-4 lead before converting a mistake by his foe into a fall...
...pounds, Starr, who destroyed his afternoon foe, 13-3, moved to a quick 6-2 advantage in his title bout with Massachusetts' George Zguris. In the final period, Zguris rallied to a 8-8 tie before Starr executed an escape and a takedown and held on to nab a 11-10 decision...
Molière was a foe of zealotry, and an apostle of moderation. He regarded the extremist as society's sickest man. Each of his better plays is a kind of psychosocial profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite, a miser, a misanthrope. In Molière's view, such a man is as mad as a man who claims to be Napoleon; the only cure is a cascade of laughter and the bracing tonic of common sense...
Indeed, the match was so close that it was not until the Crimson's Rich Starr pinned his 190 pound foe at 4:26 that Harvard was assured of a victory...