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...soon the whole discussion was turned into a nation-wide scandal. A Boston newspaper, the Record-American, more than a month after Dean Watson's statement, announced in a front-page banner headline: "Harvard Bares Wild Parties." Of course Harvard had bared nothing, the Record-American had chosen some select passages from Dean Monro's letter to the CRIMSON in which he expressed his position on the parietals question. But after all this controversy, there were no changes in parietal hours...
Despite repeated attempts to convince the State Department of Public Works to select another route, Massachusetts officially recommended that the federal government approve Brookline-Elm last March. Now, about a month before the state elections, Volpe appears to have reversed his administration's decision, or, at least suspended...
...without doubt, Phi Beta Kappa simply makes mistakes in trying to select the 90 intellectually most powerful members of a class in which six or seven hundred graduate with honors. No one claims PBK is infallible. But neither, fortunately, is it as significant as Mr. Chester inclines to believe. If Mr. Chester is on the losing end of one of PBK's mistakes, let him take consolation in knowing that membership in PBK neither bestows nor rewards greatness. Joel E. Cohen...
Each spring, close to one hundred members of the graduating class are added to the twenty-four members of their class already in Phi Beta Kappa. As a disappointed candidate for this "select" group, I decided to learn what. I could of its clandestine election procedures. I inquired of Dean Monro, several faculty members, the wife of recent Harvard Phi Bete, and others. The results of these discussions were profoundly disturbing to me, and, I feel, should be made public...
...free world is already linked in the Atlantic Community. Once the war in Viet Nam is ended, the U.S. sees no reason why it should not watch and cheer that community from its own shores, ready to act to protect its members against aggression, but willing to let Asia select its own path into the modern world...