Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to keep the record straight, I should like to correct the figures on withdrawals from the College attributed to me in a story which appeared in the CRIMSON on March 14th. The increase in withdrawals from the College for all reasons (forced and voluntary) in the last two years was only one-half of one per cent. The considerable increase to which I called special attention in my annual report for 1957-58 was only in the two related sub-categories of voluntary withdrawals labelled as for "personal" and "medical" reasons, which rose from...
...hear all kinds of things about Tom Lehrer. In prep school, where everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...
...real life," Tom Lehrer is a fairly tall, modest man who looks about twenty-five, and is mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice...
...know where people get this idea I'm so sinister," says Lehrer. "They have this idea I'm a lot older than I am--that could be the record jacket, of course--or 'He's not at all the way he sounds.' It's not that I'm that raffish. Perfectly nice people joke this...
...This rumor that I was kicked out of Harvard is something I don't mind fostering. It adds to my "legend" or glamour--what have you. Actually, my last year in the graduate school coincided with work on my record and it was getting so that I could do little else. The math department and I agreed there was no point going on under this kind of strain so I didn't register the next fall. But I do hope to finish off my thesis eventually...