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...member of the History Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and of the sub-committee which had special responsibility for drafting the Committee's proposal for a revision of the General Examination in History, I should like to correct a mistaken impression which some readers may get from the April 18 Crimson story on that proposal...
...meet was safely out of reach before the mile relay team hit the track, but the Crimson quarter men, Sam Butler, Stuart Kuschner, Randy Buckley and Joel Peters, teamed up for a fast relay, with Butler setting a quick pace, coming through in a sub-50-second opening split...
Three members of the Corporation along with Putnam comprise this committee. Last year the sub-committee decided to abstain from voting Harvard's Mobil Oil stock on a resolution to have the company's foreign affiliates (including Mobil South Africa) institute affirmative action programs for minority employment. Albert L. Nickerson '33 one of the Fellows on the sub-committee, disqualified himself because he is a former chairman of Mobil's board of directors. If Corporation members removed themselves from every issue in which they were chummy with some of the principals the proposed action is directed against, the subcommittee probably...
...CHANT THE Swazi tribespeople, dancing, circling, shaking in the magic glow of age-old ritual fires. In the center stand the king, the queens, the elders and the sub-chieftans--all the ranking leaders of the tribe--humbled and ridiculed by the insults of the people. A young prince steps forward, his head held high, his shield and spear in hand: "Follow me," he beckons to the people, "this evil king betrays his sacred trust." More princes and military captains mimic his example, defiling the name of the monarch and calling the people to rebellion. Then, remarkably, these same slanderers...
...purpose of these ritual "impeachments" was both to affirm the unity of the people around the kingship and to highlight conflicts around the person of the king himself. Even when no prince or sub-chieftan actually coveted the throne, the ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with...