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...Warren Nugent, the Leverett House superintendent will be retiring from the position he has held for 13 years...
...been a super 13 years," Nugent said. "Harvard is a great place to work, no matter what everyone says. The complainers are the ones who've never worked out in the real world...
Citadel stalwarts were deeply wounded. Said retired Lieut. Colonel T. Nugent Courvoisie, 77, immortalized as the Citadel's harsh taskmaster, the "Bear," in Pat Conroy's best seller The Lords of Discipline, last Wednesday: "That girl says she wants to come in and be one of the boys. But the minute she comes in, the atmosphere changes. She ruins the whole concept of getting everyone together and working on the same team." In fact, there may be some truth to claims by other traditionalists that once Faulkner is in, rather than playing by the Citadel's rules...
Flanagan's main observer this time is Janice Nugent, a well-born Catholic widow. She falls in love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly...
Connecting the houses has not been a complicated task, said Warren Nugent, superintendent of Leverett House...