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This Monday everyone involved at Paine Hall is at least a little scared. Some of the students are banding together in a bloc, trying to come up with a "a joint statement." They are huddling together defiantly against the outer dark. They are trying to devise a "strategy" to pit against the "strategy" the deans will use "to split them." I do not know what the Deans or the Faculty are thinking. They are angry no doubt that important principles have been violated. And perhaps they are still troubled by the nightmare of what happened in May in Morningside Heights...
...Yardlings' main problem will be stopping Army's John Ferguson, a versatile swimmer whom Army may use in a variety of places in the Cadets' opener. Crimson coach Benn Merritt wants to pit Ackerman against Ferguson...
...Jungle is a classic of American social reform, and it put Sinclair first in the company of early 20th century muckrakers: Frank Norris (The Octopus, The Pit), Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company), and Jack London (The War of the Classes). Sinclair started a short-lived Utopian community in New Jersey, called the Helicon Home Colony, with the $30,000 he earned from The Jungle...
With these facts straight, I calculate the number of points scored per minute by each team, multiply by .90, add in a quick balance for home field advantage and then pit the whole deal against the other team's defense...
...provided "the natural role of liasion between students and instructors of the course." But, just as an aside, something seemed wrong with the strategy: if we as blacks have learned little else from our curious history in this society, we should have learned to avoid involvement in polemics that pit black against black to the detriment of our common struggle. For in this way we become the true "pawns," while the decision-making forces in the Harvard setting--and surely they watch bemused by the spectacle, even under the guise of dispassionate objectivity--remain unindicted for their intellectual negligence...