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...this letter, copies of which I am sending to The Harvard Crimson and the Cornell Daily Sun. I wish to make public my bitter regret about my behaviour at the Harvard-Cornell hockey games: Specifically, for throwing a bottle onto the ice at the end of the game. As a Harvard student and as a human being I am deeply ashamed. The action was wrong, irresponsible, and inexcusable. My intentions were not violent and I have been hurt by The Crimson's persistent misreporting that I threw a can that hit the Cornell goaltender. However, this does not alter...
...between unpalatable alternatives, the influx of refugees brings not only the promise of serious food shortages but a dangerous infusion of unfulfilled expectations. Says returning Construction Worker Joseph Azah: "We left Ghana to escape rural poverty. We are not coming back to grow cassava." The flight lieutenant may soon regret that he cannot offer anything better...
...recognize that there are people beyond age 70, whom it would be a marvelous thing to have around--no doubt about it. Professors don't lose their abilities at age seventy. There are people who retire here quite often, about whom I have a very genuine sense of regret, because I know that these people still have all their capacities, are marvelous teachers, are marvelous scholars. In one sense, you say, we would have the services of some of these marvelous people longer. In extraordinary circumstances, very extraordinary, we have kept people beyond age 70, for a very short period...
According to Dale, Chesterton published 78 books. Not all are fine or triumphant, and far more than half are forgotten. But that is no reason for regret. As Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist and pop novelist, comments, "In Books in Print I found nine volumes of H.G. Wells and eleven volumes of G.B. Shaw ... for Chesterton the list goes up to more than thirty. With thirty volumes listed, who needs a 'revival'?" If one ever becomes necessary, The Outline of Sanity is the place to begin...
Bloomfield and another Harvard medievalist, Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred, yesterday joined Benson in expressing regret about Robinson's decision to stay at Yale. Both said there was a wide pool of possible candidates for the position, but that Harvard had not yet focused on any particular scholars...