Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...close and your victory was not sure, but you had only begun to ridicule. For want of anyone else to do the job, the HCUA conducts the Class Marshal elections. These men are to be the core of the permanent class committee, which plans commencement, keeps the class in touch with Harvard, and is responsible for reunions and fund raising. What a perfect object for ridicule! Imagine anyone wanting to go to commencement, or keep in touch with Harvard! You could conduct two crusades with one sword. You could twist the sword in the body of the HCUA...
...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...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...