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...students. He is very rare, almost non-existent [now].” Of course, with changes in professorial life (and especially in the expectations that weigh upon them: more research, less teaching), the Houses have gradually lost the traces of faculty presence—remaining only in the rudiment of resident tutors, who of course are not professors but students themselves. The Senior Common Rooms, receptions to which professors affiliated with a House are invited, do remarkably little to stimulate student-faculty interaction, and the institutional relationship between faculty members and the Houses is tenuous: faculty members are not seen...
Many ineptitudes: tyranny does its best work in the dark, and information is often more powerful than guns. But the committee did not grasp that rudiment either. It did not shut down the country's television, telephones and other communications with the rest of the world. Or maybe it could not have done so anyway, so pervasive, adaptable and versatile are the electronic instruments...
Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
There are men on both of the higher squads, from the team which received Springfield's kickoff down, who learned football rudiment on the class fields. But the true importance of class football is in its availability to every man in Harvard College. Vicarious experience of the game is now only a matter of choice, where once there was no other. Within reach of Everyman, and probably for the last time in his life, has been brought the hard, fine joy of playing football...
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