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...Salvador where anyone who breathes a word of protest is summarily seized, interrogated, imprisoned or "disappeared." Now they've gone an done it, Hahvahd style--a fireside chat about "liberal principles" with a tutor who holds a gun to your head. These outrageous threats of expulsion and attempts to regiment campus life must be exposed, protested and reversed! Andre Weltman '86 Tom Crean '86 for the Spartacus Youth League
...students, voluntarily participated in the eighthour lab which investigates different aspects of cardiovascular physiology. The lab is performed under the closed supervision. All participants are required to attend an orientation the day before the lab to view a move of the procedure, especially the anesthetic regiment. A protessor, doctor, or graduate student in physiology guides a team of four to five students through the procedure...
Much of this coincides with the author's own early life: Sassoon, who regarded himself merely as an uncomplicated "foxhunting man," once captured single-handed an enemy battalion frontage that the Royal Irish Regiment had failed to take the day before. Then he turned around and wrote...
Said Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller, battle-scarred commander of the 1st Marine Regiment: "We'll suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers us. They've blown the bridges and blocked the roads but we'll make it somehow...
...both wistful and satirical, at the Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, with its indispensable advice: "A tiara is never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...