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...appealed to the next day, he refused help because the boys had firearms and were getting ready to defend the Outer Gate by flinging flagstones down on the police. Harvard and Princeton experienced numerous such episodes. In 1788 the situation at Harvard was so bad that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes...
Stirring the dust that has settled over Canadian politics, Liberal Prime Minis ter Lester B. Pearson last week announced the biggest Cabinet overhaul of any government since World War II. Of 25 ministries, ten were reorganized. Five ministers were shifted out of their jobs into new ones, and five old faces, two of them touched by the scandals that rocked Pearson's Cabinet last year, were replaced altogether. Said Pearson bluntly: "The nature of governmental problems is altering to a dramatic degree. These changes are designed to improve efficiency and better serve the needs of the Canadian people...
...massive shake-up came little more than a month after the national election in which Pearson confidently expected to win a real mandate for his 29-month minority government but came away from the polls with the same old minority. One of the top men to go was Pearson's erstwhile Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, an old crony whose advice led the Liberals into the dogfall election. Gordon resigned immediately after the election. Of the old ministers, only a few came out of the shuffle with increased stature, and the most important of them is Gordon's replacement...
While that makes Sharp one of Pearson's most powerful lieutenants, most of the interest in Ottawa last week was concentrated on the new men Pearson has brought into his Cabinet-among whom the Liberals may one day find their next leader. In answer to a news man's question, Pearson declared: "I'm carrying on." But he is 68 now, and some observers think he may step down after another year...
...with any additional information you require, or you may write to the National Director, Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt. Sincerely, H. Ronald Rowse." Three personal pronouns in the first thirteen words. Of course, you will mail your application directly to Professor Rowse, and the fact that his address is "Mathematics Department / Pearson Hall" reminds you that you are corresponding with a scholar, not an administrator. Moreover, around the time you receive your Wilson application forms--but under separate cover--you receive a letter from the national director congratulating you on being nominated for a Wilson by a member of the academic profession...