Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there wouldn't be very many guys in ROTC if the draft weren't on their backs. If I were now in the army, I would still find Hoffmann's hands-off attitude obscene, because I and my comrades would be forced to kill and be killed while Mr. Hoffmann washed his hands of the affair. Only a member of the elite can afford to take that attitude. Many of us don't care to join that sort of elite while our (largely working class) brothers are shipped to Vietnam...
...Mr. Hoffmann made a number of additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...
Figures first. The bus costs $56 a night and the fare is 10 cents a ride. Mr. Leahy, the man responsible for articulating the decision to axe the bus, claims, "We've been losing $20 to $30 every night." What his figures do not tell you, though, is that the bus conversely has been earning $26 to $36 every night, meaning that 130 to 180 people ride the bus nightly (assuming all riders ride round-trip), and that is still quite...
What to do to keep the bus. Mr. Leahy suggests that if the bus were swamped with passengers these next two nights, the Committee on Houses would have to reconsider. I would prefer to see the bus continued on the social-benefit grounds enumerated above, rather than on the grounds that it has earned its keep. Roy S. Goldfinger...
...With such works as Soldat, Octet, Dumbarton Oaks, and Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Stravinsky is definitely a member of the former group. L'Histoire du Soldat (1918), a suite of elegant miniatures for seven players, was given a generally excellent reading under the direction of student conductor David Archibald. Mr. Archibald, although somewhat inhibited technically, maintained metrical control and instrumental balance. In his propriety of gesture he was refreshingly free from both the hysterical and praying mantis perversions, conducting with simple, effective judiciousness resulting from the unself-indulgent understanding of a work. The few instances of imprecision, such as slight...