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Hersey's new book is set in the form of his annual letter to the alumni of Pierson College, where he has just completed a five-year term as Master. Rather than concentrate on the affairs of the College, however, he talks this year about Yale as a whole, and about America. Unfortunately, he tries to give the letter a universal appeal, and, in so doing, manages to alienate almost everyone who could conceivably read it. He begins by offering an apologia for the use of dirty words by undergraduates which will surely strike all but the most puritanical alumni...
...team, when you get out there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of that Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...
...Pierson Field...
Five years ago, Yale President Kingman Brewster invited Hersey to join the Yale staff as a sort of nonprofessorial gadfly-in-residence. He accepted and became "master" of Pierson College. He watched sympathetically as national events and the evolving youthful counterculture led Yale to the brink of what he regretfully came to call "confrontational hysteria...
Other Harvard competitors included professors Arthur Smithies, Alwin Papperheimer, and Reginald Isaacs, who finished eighth, fifteenth, and eighteenth in the Veteran Singles division. Professor Gail Pierson took fifteenth place in junior lightweight singles...