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GEORGE WELLER'S Not to Eat, Not for Love, did for The Crimson what Erich Segal's Love Story did for Harvard hockey a generation later. The 1929 Editorial Chairman's narrative of life at Harvard gained name for its author and his subjects far outside of Cambridge. The churning out of editorials described here was part of an average day at The Crimson in the period from 1905 to 1930. Little else remained constant in this quarter century, as the paper expanded to one more column and several more inches, dropped the heavy emphasis on athletics, and took notice...
University of Michigan Sociologist David Segal is skeptical. It may be, he suggested last week, that "drudgery is part of the heroic image of the military. If the Army becomes too easy, it is as likely to lose appeal as gain...
Drudgery is just one of the topics Segal plans to investigate when he be comes chief of social processes in the Army's new Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences on July 1. He will also study less unusual ways of luring recruits: raising pay, strengthening education and travel incentives and encouraging enlistment by married couples. As Segal sees it, one priority is to learn how to maintain a volunteer army: the nation, he says, will no longer tolerate the draft. He also plans to study racism and drugs. With the Army providing "a captive research population...
Perhaps the Elis' greatest star in Brich Segal, the Harvard man who, it must be admitted, blossomed at Yale. Those who believed last summer that Segal's star had finally been eclipsed were once again proved wrong when Segal's smiling face suddenly turned up behind an ABC microphone in Munich, Germany. Segal had traveled to Munich to give millions of Americans color commentary on the Olympic Marathon...
...everyone who watched ABC now knows, Frank Shorter, an old Eli who was once one of Segal's students, won the 26-mile race easily. After the race was over, the irrepressible Chris Schenkel asked Shorter if he was aware of the fact that Segal had picked him to win the week before the race, Shorter said that shucks, no, he hadn't known, and he than thanked Segal for his support. Segal replied graciously that all he had really does was to make a prediction and that Shorter was the man who had run the race...