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Current claim to fame: Former President of the United States.
Title: Appeasement at Munich (The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy.)
Excerpt(s): "Democracy['s] [...] reprentativies [sic] cannot run contrary to the basic wishes of the people in any game of bluff. [...] [I]n a dictatorship the people, even if they wished, are often powerless to impress their wishes on the dictator until it is too late. This advantage is conceded...
For more on undergraduate theses written by prominent College alumni, check out this 1987 Crimson article, "Theses of the Rich and the Famous."
While everyone is familiar with the squirrels that dwell on campus, there have been a surprising number of sightings of more predatory creatures—hawks.