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Kingman Brewster, in the standard interpretation of Mayday at Yale, emerges as a sort of Faust figure, a corrupt, conniving academic who sold his soul to the devil for an easy out. Very few people have compared him to Marguerite, the naive, innocent young girl whom Mephistopheles lures into damnation. The Faust interpretation, after all, has one important flaw; it presumes that the Yale administration is made up of Faustian academics overflowing with guile and cunning, who completely controlled the events of last spring. In fact, the reverse was true...
Something of this same way of thinking is apparent whenever people at Harvard talk about Yale, and especially when they discuss Yale's reaction to last Mayday. Conditioned by the belief that the academic is essentially corrupt, an opportunist, a man in search of personal gain, it is easy to understand why the actions of the Yale faculty seem suspect, or why a Harvard observer would be moved to speak of King-man Brewster as a "grinning hypocrite." If Yale did not go to Hell, it was not because it didn't deserve...
...issue of Mayday reports that Dr. Farnsworth recently requested that other doctors send him information "to aid in answering our critics who say we have no data that marijuana is harmful...
...Mayday attributed the following statement to Farnsworth...
...power boats. Many of them, of course, have become experts at the game, and even the neophytes usually get home in one piece. The water, contrary to legend, is more forgiving than, say, the thin air or a concrete abutment. Even so, the Coast Guard responded to 43,000 "Mayday"* distress calls last year, the vast majority of them from power-boatmen, who also accounted for 875 of the 1,312 deaths on the water...