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...critique drew mixed reviews. Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, thought it raised economic issues that deserved to be considered seriously. Several Ec 1 sectionmen and former sectionmen said they agreed completely with its criticisms of the course. But Richard T. Gill '48, lecturer in Economics and administrative head of Ec 1 since 1959, didn't like the critique at all, and his opinion was crucial...
...Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, already allows PT credit for such "carry-over" sports as pistol and rifle, cricket and karate, and, upon application, for such other esoteric activities as Radcliffe volleyball and dancing classes, Loeb Theatre musical productions and donations to the PBH blood drive. Two freshmen received credit for SCUBA diving in the IAB pool last year, a third for his riding lessons at Beverley...
...were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
Dressed in Army fatigues and sporting a ten-day growth of beard, he looked more like a Cuban revolutionary than the best running back in pro football. He sounded pretty revolutionary too. "I want," said James Nathaniel Brown, 30, "to have a hand in the struggle that is going on in our country." Thus Jim Brown (TIME cover, Nov. 26), fullback of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns and the biggest ground gainer (12,312 yds. over nine seasons) in the history of pro football, announced his retirement from the sport that made him famous...
...HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world," /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America's world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer...