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...this alone is a weak argument for abolishing them. Belabored with the charge of undemocracy, the club man will merely reply, "So what if I'm undemocratic. I've got a right to choose my circle of friends as long as I'm not doing anyone else any harm...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Curley's wit raises a question that still divides the faculty of the institution he so enjoyed baiting. Was he the colorful old rogue that he has been made lately, or did he do Boston irreparable harm? In his old age he certainly tried to give credence to the former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

When the motion was reintroduced, it passed unanimously.... Walking back to his office, Briggs felt mildly elated. Perhaps Hall and Ford had had a good idea after all. Certainly it did the department no harm for the administration and even the public to know they wished to honor one to whom honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAINT AND THE SCHOLAR | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

Peace. "America is allergic to appeasement. There will be no appeasing Communist aggression while I am President. Today, from Lebanon to Quemoy, those in the world who would do us harm know that America will not be bullied, will not countenance territorial expansion by force. Our young men have not gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Leadership Issue (Contd.) | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...nylon brush with bristles cut off square at the ends. Her most extreme case: a woman of 28 who was on the verge of suicide last year because of hair loss, was saved by a bristle brush. Nylon brushes with rounded bristle ends appear to do no harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Violence to the Scalp | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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