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...were to ban a brief, spontaneous gathering of final club members, then I might also ban any random, spontaneous gathering of students I see on campus," wrote David P. Illingworth '71, associate dean of the College, in an e-mail message. "Such regulatory behavior on my part would be ridiculous and outrageous...
Calling this year's results a "random fluctuation," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 attributes Harvard's non-showing to an unavoidable statistical aberration that was bound to happen one year or another. Elliot F. Gerson '74, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, deems it an "inevitable" event into which no "great significance" should be read. While chance no doubt played a part in Harvard's poor showing, I would add to that an entirely non-random factor...
...good news is that this can be easily fixed by the powers that be, who in this case happen to be Dean Lewis. The most ideal solution is simply to endorse all nominally qualified applicants. With the notoriously intense Rhodes interview process, which while not random is certainly a hit or miss experience, it is in Harvard's best interest to field as many candidates as possible. When those tossing the questions are so unpredictable, it's best to give everyone the chance to hit a home run. If Harvard wishes to continue restricting the number of candidates it endorses...
...disappointed of course, not for Harvard but for the many outstanding individual students Harvard endorsed," Lewis said. "I don't have any reason to think this is anything but a random fluctuation, but we will certainly try to learn what we can about the competition this year...
...fair game for driving too slowly, eating too early, and because they couldn't read a ballot although they can manage a dozen bingo cards. There are the Jews, ridiculed for letting a simple butterfly ballot trick them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate five times as great as those with modern equipment. I'm Irish. I know from grudges. My guess is that they don't get over...