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Pebbles & Trains. For some Harvardmen, Conant took a good deal of getting used to. Striding across the Yard with a sheaf of papers bundled under his arm, he looked more like a minor clerk than a president. Sometimes on a Saturday, he could be seen tossing pebbles at a laboratory window, trying to catch the attention of one of his ex-cronies at work inside, and sometimes he could be found playing with an electric train on the floor of the presidential ballroom. Even some of his ideas were a bit disturbing. He hated silver spoons and ivory towers...
After counting up the number of Harvardmen slated for jobs in the higher Eisenhower echelons (a dozen, including President Dr. James B. Conant, Sinclair Weeks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Winthrop W. Aldrich), the Boston Globe gleefully recalled some of Eisenhower's own campaign oratory last fall in Louisville, when Candidate Ike said: "It is high time that we had real and positive policies in the world that we understand . . . We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words...
...night, Harvard Yard has echoed with the familiar cry. "Oh, Rinehart!" It is the summons which brings students tumbling out of their rooms, whips them up to water fights, raids, and occasionally riots. It is Harvard's great rebel yell, but just how it first got started, few Harvardmen ever knew...
Back at Harvard, the extracurricular diet included phonograph records much to the glee of Briggs & Briggs, and the fad-happy Harvardmen followed this phase by kissing marathons. Debutante teas were raided, and one sophomore kissed 26 Wellesley girls in five minutes Cliffedwellers remained in Widener...
...realize this hope, Harvardmen, as of this week, had already given...