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...myself attempted to write that I am a conscientious objector on my draft registration card, when I registered in Memorial Hall on Sunday. However, my registrar was so firmly against it that I acquiesced, since the procedure is not legally proper. There are at least fourteen other active members of the Harvard Pacifist Association who will state their objection to war when they receive their questionnaires. Marvin J. Shapivo '42. Dunster...
...year old linotypist, who has been running the CRIMSON presses in the early morning hours for the last few years, gained national prominence nine years ago when he finished third-in the national minter golf championship at Chattanooga, Tennessee, A seant fourteen years old, he had won the Massachusetts tournament earlier in the year and was acclaimed by Francis Ouimet as a phenomenal putter and a potentially great golfer...
...Fourteen prominent students from the Juniors and Senior classes, as well as two graduate students, last night issued a joint statement in approval of the plans for formation of a college council on post-war peace problems, which takes place this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room...
During World War I one great factor in breaking the fighting morale of the German people was the enlightened Fourteen Points of Woodrow Wilson. At Versailles the Fourteen Points-and German faith in them-were made a mockery. If the Allies of World War II hope to break down a German morale bolstered by both fear and memory of Versailles, they need somehow to convince the German people that vengeance is not the Allied principle, that the enlightened Atlantic Charter of Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt means what it says...
When Marianna moved in as Byron's housekeeper, his expenses were cut in half. Byron employed "about fourteen servants . . . besides a floating population of Venetian parasites. Unnamed and unnumbered his concubines came and went. . . ." He was surrounded with harlots and pimps and gondoliers and their . . . families. Shelley remarked with chill disdain that among Byron's boon companions were "wretches who seem almost to have lost the gait and physiognomy of man, and who do not scruple to avow practices which are not only not named, but I believe even conceived in England...