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LeCorbeilller is not content, however, to let his philosophical speculation on science lie dormant in back issues of the Monthly. Three times a week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...
...long tradition of Puritanism and the incisive probings of the Watch and Ward Society, the population of Greater Boston today consumes what may well be a larger portion of spice with its reading than any other group of people in the country. Bostonians bow gracefully to the rebust vigilantes in matters of what plays to see, what songs to listen to, and what books to read, as long as they are left free to romp unfettered among the ax murders and attacks willingly dispensed by their morning papers...
...great influx of students who would never have come here without the G.I. Bill presents the strongest threat yet to a Brahmin coolness and a decentralized social way of life that have been refined over 300 careful years. Whether a more rebust House program is feasible and whether increased facilities from the College would help, only experiment can tell. But now, painfully aware that learning can be acquired outside of textbooks as well as within, many an undergraduate is not receiving full value on his Harvard education...
...current weakness of undergraduate activities can be traced in part to the traditional distaste that University Hall exhibits toward mixing in extra-curricular affairs. In the past, this hands-off policy has been judiciously managed and has allowed the more rebust organizations to develop into outstanding examples of what college students can do on their own. But with only a handful of clubs in operation, and with a large percentage of students falling into a production-line routine, some modification of the old line should develop. The proposed Student Activities Center is a long jump in this direction, but only...
Some of the more rebust members of the class (as evidenced by the recent fitness tests) are beginning to worry about their prowess. Rumor has it that the men who show by their fitness scores of a high degree of endurance and stamina will be seriously considered for C-B billets or destroyers where men have to be able to "take...