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...Washington, donates the royalties he receives from his books to a fund he and his wife set up to aid women scientists in Vietnam. Koblitz's Harvard classmate, Michael K. Fenollosa '69, now an assistant vice-president at Boston's Shawmut Bank, writes in recent Class Record Book: "Needless to say, and I suppose, somewhat regretfully. I have become a political conservative (it seems hard to believe that I once voted for George McGovern for President.)" The two men represent two of the many different solutions to the dilemma that faced the Class of '69 as it grew from adolescence...
...idea, needless to say, struck Fall as an outrage. What offended as much as the usurpation was the sex of the usurper. The U.S. has always been a patriarchal arrangement, at least in its politics. Presidents were to be, in the racy formula that Queen Elizabeth I once used, "crested, not cloven." The American political style savored of saloons and cigars, and took its vocabulary (front runner, dark horse) from the race track. It was Founding Fathers, not Founding Mothers, who drafted the Constitution. Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband John, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies...
...issue of the Core itself, Rosovsky's optimism again appears somewhat overblown. Rosovsky draws confidence from the statistic that close to half the Core enrollments are electives but concedes that the full impact of Core requirements will not be known until the Class of '86 graduates. Needless to say, that judgement is of little comfort to undergraduates currently struggling to combine 10 Core offerings with concentration requirements...
...Needless to say it would give China great "face" were its doctrine accepted by all five nuclear powers. Such a development would also offer the best prospect for getting China to abandon its present standoffish attitude towards negotiations among the nuclear powers...
...upper-class advisors would be able to describe current courses and trends within many academic departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments the advisors do not know well. It is a needless waste of a resource not to employ the advising talents of qualified upperclassmen...