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...Faculty at Harvard do not participate in investment decisions either, but here the situation is not inflammatory. Investments are controlled by the treasurer, George F. Bennett, who is responsible only to the Corporation, which may merely fire him if it does not like his investments. It so happens that none of Harvard's past three treasurers have been real-estate minded; the University's total real-estate investments, loans, and mortgages amount to $16.5 million, or 1.6 per cent of its total endowment investments. And these holdings, according to University tax manager Henry H. Cutler, are scattered around the country...
...they are simply subsets of a dominant characteristic: an unusual willingness to play the legislative game by the Faculty's rules. Lucid position papers, frequent compromise, and judiciousness are all highly valued in the Faculty, and the HPC has been able to push cautiously and successfully for the none-too-radical reforms it has advocated...
...None of the five Crimson light-weight crews suffered defeat during the 1968 racing...
...were all of these things and some of these things and none of these things at all. The press played us for what we were worth and then dropped us like the younger sister of a two-bit whore. But there were parts of us they never touched. We had our honour and our price. There were levels of profundity and nuance they could never fathom. So be clam because I'm not about to unveil out mystique here. Probably I had you scared, worried at least that I would attempt to expose our secret. Fear...
...crime and degeneracy reveals some ill-concealed white racism. The hypodermic needle he describes as "the tool of the Negro slums". He describes seeing a "pretty girl with straight blond hair" meet a "goateed Negro" in Harvard Square, talk about drugs, and then disappear together into a Harvard building--none too subtly hinting at miscegination...