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...Nassau street merchants speak glowingly of the discrimination and good taste that students show in buying. Chief of Princeton's police, Edward Mahan, is benign when describing the minor peccadilloes that come to his attention. "They are good boys," he says, and points out that rarely is he forced to look up a Princeton for disorderly conduct...
...proctors and the Princeton police that, in case a riot starts, the police will divert traffic from the college area, prevent townspeople from joining the fun, and leave the actual quashing of the trouble to the proctors. When a Princeton does get in trouble with the town police, Chief Mahan generally turns the culprit over to the proctor, who holds him for the deanery to deal with...
...ultra-busy reshapers are almost always little flat-chested half pints who did the heavy watching and accused the team of quitting cold when it happened to lose." The New York Herald Tribune wondered why the CRIMSON didn't get the idea when Harvard still had Brickley, Casey, and Mahan, while other graduates and football coaches sympathized with the idea, but termed it impractical...
...John H. Mahan, Biochemical Sciences; Burton G. Malkiel, Economics; M. Joel Mandelbaum, Music; James W. Mason, English; Ralph N. Maud, English; Paul T. McElroy, Physics; Abbott R. Miller, Chemistry; Bruce H. Morgan, Physics; Ivan Nabokoff, English; John R. O'Brien, Government; Roger S. Peterson, Biology; Stephen R. Petschek, History and Literature; Glen A. Rebka, Jr., Physics; Walter R. Reitman, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Richard L. Renfield, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Rodman D. Rhodes, English; Robert Rosenman, Government...
Whether by design or not, King reveals himself in his choice of heroes. Heading his list of the world's great naval commanders is John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, whom Mahan, in heartfelt admiration, could only call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...