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...seniors were: Bruce A. Boucher (Classics and English) of Dunster House and Birmingham, Ala.; James M. Fallows (History and Literature) of Adams House and Redlands, Calif.: Eric C. Hanson (Biology) of Eliot House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Kent M. Kelth (Government) of Eliot House and Saginaw, Michigan: EricReiman (Government) of Lowell House and Seattle, Washington; and Paul S. Viita (Mathematics) of Leverett House and Braintree...
...members of the team will not make the trip, most of them in deference to a Chem 20 hourly the next day. "We feel we'll be all right, though," head coach Bill Brooks said yesterday. The five are Toby Gerhart, Dave Powlison, Tom Wallace, Johnny Munk, and Eric Hanson...
After some discussion, the Rev. Hanson stated that the book was not "the real problem." What needed changing, he claimed, was the entire "humanities" approach of the English department, an approach that "poses many questions, but does not present answers." The minister went on to claim that "this humanistic approach presents a 'false God.'" and that "Telstar might go the way of many college campuses toward socialism and communism" (shades of the earlier Blue Hill fracas...
...THIS skirmish, then, the forces of light and right seem to have triumphed for a change. But the Rev. Hanson carried his campaign into the pages of The Leaflet, the official organ of the New England Association of Teachers of English, by contributing his article "Choosing Literature" to the May 1969 issue, in which he branded books like the three above as "immoral," "degenerate," and "worthless trash...
...safe to say, then, that neither Maine nor any other state has seen the end of the Linwood Hansons of the world, who must be tirelessly resisted whenever they arise. As to the three novels (all available in paperback), I commend them to any adolescent, and to any adult. I especially commend them to the Rev. Hanson and his self-righteous cohorts, whom I strongly urge to make an effort to move ahead and join the rest of us in the twentieth century. In the meantime, the Tom Marinos among us may take heart from the remark of Hesse...