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Administration-watching is a tricky business, because it relies so much on piecemeal information and guesswork and because the administration speaks its mind on important issues to alumni, not students. But the administration seems to be in a retrenching period, brought on by financial woes and slipping reputation, that has resulted in a subtle shift in its line. The important thing to remind alumni now is that Harvard needs their money for vitally important things, not just frills. The problem with the argument that surfaced in last month's alumni meeting is that it implies that equality is a mere...
...Hitler's suicide, but also that "each defeat will shake his confidence and ... he will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality." In fact, Hitler began ordering mass slaughters of the Jews as his military position crumbled. But even Langer calls psychiatric profiles "90% guesswork...
...ouster, until in February the Council of Deans appointed an eight-member committed to oversee the program. The committee met with various groups interested in the program, including the poor whites and Freedberg. This year there will be ten poor whites in the program--if the admissions committee's guesswork as to the race of applicants is correct--and the med school group seems to have calmed down. Now a Chicano group is mad at the program and has written a letter of complaint to President Bok calling, once again, for Crooks's firing...
...editions of Shakespeare give the reader much sense of where the words he reads come from. Some of them, of course, come from Shakespeare; but many are the additions of collaborators, the mistakes of printers and scribes, the faulty recollection of actors, the alterations of bowdlerizers and the guesswork of editors. The Riverside text, prepared by Gwynne B. Evans, professor of English, over the last 13 years is so uncompromising in sticking to the best sources that some of his readings may not be popular: he replaces "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" with "a rose...
...course, before early June, there's almost no way to find out the degree recipients except by pure guesswork and conjecture--but don't be surprised if Archibald Cox '34 ends up on the Commencement platform in June...