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Harvard humiliated Brown last week in Providence in a race that meant more than some people suppose. The weather in Providence was rotten and the water consequently quite rough, working to the advantage of the more powerful Crimson crew. But the real reason for Harvard's six length victory was its own talent--not weather or Brown's lack of ability...
When a newsman asked whether he would appeal, the man said no he would not. He said if the American system was so rotten as to put him in jail for that offense at his age, he didn't care, he didn't want any part of its procedures. He didn't appeal...
...C.R.P.'s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P. Among other sources who pepper the book's pages with their tips: "the Bookkeeper," a conscience-stricken woman who served C.R.P.'s finance chairman, Maurice Stans. "Something is rotten in Denmark and I'm part of it," she tremblingly warned Bernstein in her home one night a few weeks after the breakin...
Harvard's Department of Athletics works on a limited budget and may not be able to build new facilities. But if the money to maintain the facilities already built is unavailable, then perhaps something is rotten. It is, in the long run, a false economy to let property become run-down after the fashion of the hard courts on Soldiers Field. Especially since the courts actually produce a little revenue of their own--people are willing to pay a dollar an hour to play on them...
...late Joseph Strickland recruited over 200 black applicants, but that most of them were "unqualified." Nina Hillgarth, an admissions officer for GSAS, was more straight-forward about the class admitted in 1973. She told us on Feb. 27 that the applications from black students were "absolutely rotten...