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...When Harvard officials pretend to speak forHarvard they are also speaking for us, and theyare spending our money," he said...
...night, then students will have the opportunity to amend the constitution via a referendum next week. Yet, if the council fails to approve popular elections tomorrow night and if students do not successfully amend our rules, I will sadly announce my resignation as president. I do not want to pretend that I, or the council that I lead, have some sort of mandate to do anything anymore...
These movies, after all, have little redeeming social value; they're mostly about a blissfully oblivious upper class. They do not pretend to have a cohesive plot; the dancing sometime hangs on stories as flimsy as Astaire's having a girl back home who prevents him from dating Rogers. And their movies certainly don't carry any weighty morals or lessons...
...have to thank you for you proposal to present me as a candidate for an honorary degree of D.L. of Harvard University at its tri-centenary celebration. But I cannot pretend that it would be fair for me to accept university degrees when every public reference of mine to our educational system, and especially to the influence of the universities on it, is fiercely hostile. If Harvard would celebrate its 300th anniversary by burning itself to the ground and sowing its site with salt, the ceremony would give me the liveliest satisfaction as an example to all the other famous...
...dean-of-the-b usiness-school-to-show-up-in-his-office-stakeout. The guy wouldn't talk to the Crimson (said he was busy until the fall of the next year) so there we were lurking around his office. The dean's first strategy was to pretend there were no such things as Crimson reporters or photographers. "Hi Dean McArthur, I'm Steve Frank from the Harvard Crimson and I was wondering..." SLAM, went the Dean's door. I had to go to class, but Steve waited diligently for two hours at which time the Dean switched strategies (perhaps...