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While Yalies get doubled parietal hours and Harvard students support a Cliffie for Class marshal, Princeton students have been champing at the bit over their sexual segregation...
...pageant honored Churchill; but Churchill also honored the pageant. For the occasion, directed in its inimitably British style by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, consisted of a succession of crowns, swords, escutcheons, and every other encrustation of royal power-a power that is noble because it no longer rules but only inspires. In granting a royal funeral to a commoner, Britain expressed the fact that its trappings of autocracy have long ago been triumphantly absorbed by democracy-a pertinent fact in the 20th century...
Died. General Maxime Weygand, 98, diminutive cavalry officer who tasted France's sweetest victory as Marshal Foch's chief of staff reading the surrender terms to German generals at Compiegne in 1918, then acceded to his nation's most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the 73-year-old commander of Allied troops in France, he found the Nazi blitzkrieg so overwhelming that he recommended capitulation before the entire country was overrun; of complications following a broken hip; in Paris. Over the years most Frenchmen have forgiven his lack of fighting spirit, putting it down...
...perfectly you did it! What better mockery than to have Faye Levine, one of your own, run for Class Marshal with your flawless argument, "She gets a degree from Harvard University." Perhaps people will forget that students from the Law School, Medical School and GSAS (including women) also get Harvard diplomas and even march in the commencement procession. Nobody will remember that Radcliffe College and Harvard College are two of many schools in Harvard University. But it worked, people did forget and there was Faye in the Boston Globe. While she was obviously ineligible and probably did not want...
Everything was perfect, and on Wednesday morning, after your hard and dedicated work to keep the Marshal election from being simple, you could say that "The Class Marshal election should be a simple process," and grin at the HCUA...