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...Room rents will be down, down, down," Dean Robert Hall announced last week over WHRB, "but values will be up, up, up." Robertino, as he is known to his many friends the CRIMSON learned recently, said, "Harvard's soak-the-rich policy has finally paid off. Dividends right across the board, Yessiree...
...estimates that these four changes would yield $118 million in extra tax revenue. At the same time, the group maintains that they would neither increase the burden upon the poor as much as a sales tax, nor "soak the rich...
...rates, for students in the lower and hard-pressed middle financial brackets, should definitely be retained. The medium and high-rental suites will enable the Houses to meet their financial requirements by letting those who can afford it shoulder most of the burden. This "soak-the-rich" policy has long been Harvard's unofficial attitude toward the problem, and it seems foolish, just because of uniform, modern Quincy House, to let thirty years of hypocrisy go down the drain...
Guinness, of course, is a howl; the wheezing, hawking, spitting image of a merry old soak. He sports a fortnight's grizzle, along with "eyes like a pair of half-sucked acid drops," and he has developed a horrendously comic walk. Yet he never lets the spectator forget that Jimson is a man of parts-though he never quite manages to convince anybody that the old rapscallion is really a genius. The stupefyingly loud and uninteresting pictures he paints (actually the work of Britain's 30-year-old John Bratby) are partly responsible for the failure, but Guinness...
Undoubtedly, however, the economy-minded and undiscriminating would soak up these strange brands with the appalling result already described. Thus the Coop is to be roundly congratulated for keeping the power to indulge where it rightfully belongs--in the hands, to use Hamilton's phrase, of the rich and well-born. Cheers...