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...contacts a Harvard freshman makes, the person he is least likely to remember after four years is his adviser. After signing the study card in the fall, the adviser drifts out of the picture until February, when he sends his advisee a postcard notifying him that another study card is due. And that is usually the occasion of their last meeting...
...Pakistanis better at training their representatives than we are? Is the experience of middle age of more value than a degree from one of our better colleges? Was it to the advantage of the camel driver that he was unable to write a postcard home...
...University heard from its President for the first time since President Pusey left on a two-month trip to the Orient. Pusey communicated with Edward S. Mason, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, yesterday--with a picture postcard...
...post office, Margery dropped the postcard-and it was picked up by a person or persons unknown. The postcard's text was mimeographed and passed around the school, and one Dapo Falase, a campus radical and president of the Student Union, called a rally to denounce the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of American imperialism" and "members of America's international spy ring." Margery Michelmore offered her resignation to the corps, her apologies to the students of the college for her "thoughtless postcard." Then she flew out of Nigeria...
...what she had seen-and plenty of Nigerians realized it. Commented Columnist Tai Solarin in the Lagos Daily Times: "If she was out to ridicule the country, she would be intelligent enough to protect her stings with an envelope. But what she did was a jotting down on a postcard of what she saw. She was sure she was not discovering something new, and not a single Nigerian who knew this part of Nigeria would suggest that she was sending home a made-up story...