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...Post with the hapless laggard. Probably no battle has ever been won by the general who was late. "Time is everything," Lord Nelson said. "Five minutes makes the difference between victory and defeat." The French were kind enough to prove his point a few years later. If the dilatory Marshal Ney had beaten Blucher's Prussians to position at Waterloo, the battle could have ended in a French victory, and Wellington might have taken Bonaparte's lease on the house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed...
Twenty-four minutes later, as two Harvard policemen and a Cambridge Fire Marshal were entering the building, a bomb exploded on the third floor of the Center for International Affairs, tearing apart three offices and heavily damaging the Center's library...
Immediately behind the Sheriffs will be Pusey and University Marshal William G. Anderson. Behind them will be President Emeritus Conant and President-designate Bok. They will be followed by members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and by the recipients of honorary degrees...
...Sheriff's only duty at Commencement is to reply to the Marshal's cry, "Sheriff, pray give us order," by rapping his sword three times on the platform and crying, "Let the meeting be in order." It is unclear what Buckley will use to strike the platform in lien of his sword...
...number of veteran newspapermen (two from the Christian Science Monitor others from the Boston Herald and the Globe ), but, again, there are also an equal number representing the field of corporate journalism, working for Time/Life and Newsweek -including, of course, Osborn Elliott, Newsweek editor-in-chief and chief marshal for Commencement...