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CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE Prof doubts you wrote Night Before Xmas. As long as you kept movie rights...
...gave my Prof. a sideways glance, that asked him for reassurance. But he just laughed and turned away. And I went down to the registrar, where I'd dropped classes once before, but the man there said we'd passed the fifth Monday. So in the dorms the students screamed, the first-years cried and the slackers dreamed. Not a happy word was spoken. Our spirits all were broken. And those students I despised most, whose easy schedules made them boast, were so glad that they chose to coast the day midterms arrived...
...came a Harvard man--a math prof by trade--with a crew cut, a strangulated tenor and a way of forcing parables of antisocial behavior (e.g., incest) into jolly rhyme schemes ("I'd rather marry a duck-billed pledipus/ Than end up like old Oedipus/ Rex"). For a few years, on albums and in concerts, Lehrer was a comedy hero to the intelligentsia and other lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids...
...name is usually accompanied by a quick glance around, a devious smile, and hunched-over, half-whispered anecdotes about the man. Why all the attention? Maybe because he's very smart. Maybe because he wears very big glasses. But one major reason is definitely his visibility—Prof. Elkies is a very Harvard guy. He's been here 17 of his 36 years, and can often be found in Lowell House, the math department or even...
...think. It's not because Harvard students score too high on their SATs or bubble with abnormal ambition; Wolfe has already spent a month researching at Stanford, certainly a Harvard competitor. The reason for his Harvard aversion, Wolfe confided to FM over champagne at the home of Kenan Government Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, is that Harvard has no Division I sports teams. (Apparently lacrosse and swimming don't factor into his equation. Hockey, at least, merits a brief mention: "I'm so glad that so many of these Canadian semi-pro hockey players can all score the median...