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...less dishonorable to lie about shining shoes than it is about an order under battle conditions? Can a woman be a little bit pregnant? I have just returned from my 40th reunion at West Point with the consoling conviction that the corps today, the current crisis notwithstanding, embraces the same sense of honor that has sustained it for 174 years. The corps will rid itself of the very few who don't measure up to its standards...
...while Bok managed to smile gracefully, as though he had finally learned his way around these tribal rites of Harvard alumni, Harry Selig positively beamed. Fifty straight years! He hasn't missed one 25th reunion, starting in 1926 with the Class...
...Yeah, the first time was 1926," Harry said, "when a friend of mine called and asked if I'd take pictures of his 25th Harvard reunion. I came to that one, and then I did the Class of 1902, then 1903, then 1904. . ." Harry Selig stopped talking and simply grinned. He is a short man with gray hair along the sides of his head and not very much on top. He'll be 70 in four months--"But I don't look it, do I?" he kept saying...
While Harry was grinning and talking, two of his employees at Fay Foto, two photographers, threaded through the crowd taking pictures of the reunion class. Finally someone suggested that since this was, after all, Harry's fiftieth year, someone should take a picture of him. So they stood Harry between President Bok and Avram Goldberg, president of Stop and Shop and a member of the reunion organizing committee. Everyone smiled for the camera, and then Harry went back to talking about how this was his fiftieth year...
...Class of 1951 was seated inside Kresge, and Derek Bok, standing at the microphone with one of the reunion organizers, was about to be declared an honorary classmate...