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...most salient question of the campaign now becomes, then: is this obstacle destructible? Can the Republicans regain control of the House...
There are rational defenses for the President, arguments put forth in conservative journals and by Republican columnists. But these arguments, which are for the most part well-known do not find a voice on campus; not from The Salient, the conservative newspaper, not from Reagan's student supporters, and not in The Crimson, in which editors for the first time in recent memory signed a dissenting opinion for a Republican candidate...
...most salient fact on the landscape is that Republican Sen. Gordon J. Humphrey, the former Allegheny Airlines pilot with the wife who belongs to the American College of Orgonomy, is the incumbent. And the incumbent in a year which is to New Right Republicans like himself what 1968 was to the New Left is in good shape. Especially in conservative New Hampshire...
...aside my prepared remarks and in my mind, began to collect the salient points, the Yard turned over for freshman use in 1930, the presence of women since 1972. etc. Without waiting for a reply, however, the alumnus went to the heart os his concern. Was it still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift...
...rest of the audience and I were convulsed I wondered how to reply. A new list of salient points began to form I recalled my father's tale of a classmate and fellow resident of Massachusetts Hall in 1927-28 who, when irritated by the glare of a bare lightbulb burning over the entrance to Harvard Hall, would extinguish the light with a carefully placed shot from an air gun he kept in his room. Or another parental story of the pandemonium occasioned when someone put Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops...