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Sometimes it seems that the right books never get burnt. But the world has its quota of idiotic and vicious people just as it has its supplies of books that are vicious, trashy and witless. Books can eventually be as mortal as people -- the acids in the paper eat them, the bindings decay and at last they crumble in one's hands. But their ambition anyway is to outlast the flesh. Books have a kind of enshrining counterlife. One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of words and books...
...move to "democratize" Harvard's social life, the Harvard Union was built to provide inexpensive entertainment for those who couldn't afford the club system. The clubs' elitism was taken down a notch when Harvard, then the clubs, began to admit Jews to their ranks in numbers after the quota scandals of the 1920s. In the 1950s, Harvard took the next step and allowed Black students to live in the Yard; the clubs eventually admitted Blacks...
According to former masters, the purpose of the interview was to help the masters maintain the diversity of the houses. "The masters agreed that every house would have a quota, so many people from the public schools, so many from Exeter and Andover, and so on," Pappenheimer says...
...Greeks, the original Olympians, who never have won a winter medal, led the parade as always. In the 57-nation caravan there was the normal quota of Christmas elves and bright-parkaed snowmen, but a new theme emerged: intrigue. Fedoras and spy-length overcoats were the fashion of France, Italy, Bulgaria and others, including, in a gasping surprise, the Americans. Abandoning their customary ranch outfits ("Thank heavens," said Skier Debbie Armstrong), the U.S. team wore overcoats long enough to hide tommy guns (blue coats for the men, white for the molls) and snowy, wide-brim hats from...
Moreover, the University statement which refutes the existence of a quota raises a much broader issue than that of racial discrimination. Preference to legacies and to athletes lie within the University's legal rights as a corporation, but conflict with the University's responsiblities as a world leader in education. The selfishness of persons who, like David Yu, defend the "legacy" policy (February 12) is appalling. "As a future alumnus," he defends the policy, but did he support it as an applicant four years ago? University favoritism to "legacies" perpetuates, even validates, an attitude like Yu's: one does...