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...Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond with loveless abandon. Massachusetts' Edward Brooke and Baker bounced back for the G.O.P. against Walter Mondale (Minn.) and Joseph Tydings (Md.), but Democrats Ernest Hollings (S.C.) and William Spong (Va.) swept through top-seeded Jack...
...present professor of Military Science, Col. Robert H. Pell, previously an Army public relations officer in New York, has demonstrated maladjustment to Harvard during his first year here...
Undoubtedly Pell is a sincere man who is devoted to his country and the Army. But his position on the Harvard Faculty does not give him the privilege to run ROTC like a little West Point. In the case of the four disenrollments, Pell did have the authority to act on the basis of his personal opinion of the cadets' personal characteristics. But it does not excuse the fact that he used poor judgment, was factually contradictory, and was inconsiderate of the students' rights and post-college plans...
There is no doubt but that the four students, along with eight others, were performing unsatisfactorily at midyears. And it is equally clear that all four improved in the second semester and assumed they would be commissioned. Instead, in the middle of final exams, Pell and his three-man board of staffers (who are directly responsible to him and dependent on his evaluations for advancement) informed the students by mail that they would not be commisioned. The students were given no opportunity to appear before the board or Pell, and he refused to inform them of their appeal rights above...
Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...