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...speak for, not for the Associated Harvard Alumni, and surely not for the University." Bethell prefers to be provocative in what he calls "news analysis." He has run two articles on British journalist Henry Fairlie's charges of a Kennedy takeover at Harvard, and gave extensive coverage to the McNamara confrontation last November...
Harvard alumni are notorious non-writers (even the McNamara incident drew only 25 letters). A famous cartoon in the Bulletin's fiftieth anniversary issue shows seven superimposed editors, each sitting beneath the portrait of his predecessor, and each reading a letter that begins "It strikes me that this year's football ticket situation is the worst in Harvard history." The implication that the old alums who do put pen to paper are sure to be uninspired and predictably stuffy isn't true, according to Bethell...
...There's no single tone to the letters we get," Bethell says, "I noticed last year that the Yale Alumni Magazine was loaded with attacks on Stoughton Lynd all from the old Blue class of '11 type, calling him a blot on the scutcheon of the Bulldog. The McNamara letters ran about two to one against the rowdy little students, but most of the best ones were in their defense. The greatest of them all was by Waldo Pierce '07 ripping into the "Barbarians at Washington...
...following are excerpts from a speech by Adam Yarmolinsky '43 to the Radcliffe Government Association, "The Role of the Scholar in Foreign Policy." Yarmolinsky, professor of Law and chairman of the Kennedy Institute of Politics' Fellowship Committee, was formerly Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense under McNamara. -- Ed note...
...chief criticism of SDS is its emphasis on working outside of the political institutions, prefering to picket rather than support sympathetic candidates for office, to jeer at McNamara or Goldberg rather than to encourage a Vance Hartke or Mark Hatfield. Republicans, on the other hand, believe in the wisdom of working within the institutions and have often proven its success. Yet the Club members who pulled last week's travesty violated this principle in making a mockery of the SDS elections. In so doing they immediately tossed themselves in the same political category as the people with whom they wanted...