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Even if many freshmen answer questions about their advisers with a guffaw, few students or faculty members can deny that the freshman adviser is an extremely important introduction to Harvard. As a newcomer's first official personal contact with the University, he is able-for good or for bad-to affect a freshman's attitude toward the faculty, toward Harvard, and toward education. And yet, although an adviser can become something more than a distant man in a busy office, it is equally hard to deny that a student may, and indeed often does, ignore his adviser and his adviser...
Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
...slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world's wires: Russians laugh down Eisenhower's peace proposal...
...debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families who stop to stare, and sometimes guffaw...
...stockholder meetings of his key Delhi Oil Co. is provided by a stockholder, a mailman who has made a small fortune. He plaintively asks the same question year after year: "Clint, when you goin' to pay a dividend?" Delhi stockholders, who get few dividends, can afford to guffaw at this. They all know that Murchison is interested not in dividends but in piling up the lower-taxed capital gains. He achieves them for himself and his stockholders by "spinning" new companies out of old ones...