Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second day of my freshman year, as I was moving furniture into Holworthy on a summery September afternoon, I was visited by a Crimson editor. The editor identified himself as Dan Swanson, and explained that he had occupied my room the year before, and wanted to talk to me about Harvard. My roommates and I were flattered, but also a trifle suspicious. Why should someone of such exalted journalistic rank want to speak to such...
...Swanson assured us that his sole purpose in visiting us was to brief us on some of the eccentricities of Harvard in general and Holworthy in particular, so that we might be spared some of the problems that traditionally beset the ignorant and innocent freshmen. Swanson added that the idea of briefing freshmen was not entirely his own, but was a collective endeavor on the part of The Crimson staff to provide a more realistic picture of life at Harvard than was to be found in the introductory material put out by Harvard itself...
...largely of warnings about the Holworthy squirrels ("They'll come right through the windows and chew up your term papers"), explanations of the course catalogue ("I've marked all the good courses with an X"), and a plug for The Crimson. As he was about to make his farewells. Swanson added, almost as an afterthought...
...Nixon administration, Richardson scarcely alluded to his political prospects or career: the modest former secretary of defense omitted mention even of his command over the last year of the American bombing of Cambodia. Instead, the ex. Poonster discussed his admiration for Doonesbury as class arator Daniel A. Swanson '74 berated "the men who planned this friminal war," and informed his listeners that "a lack of imagination causes cruelty." Largely ignoring a small but spirited group of hecklers. Richardson rambled from the lessons of Vietnam to his undergraduate love for philosophy to the lessons of Watergate, saying little about...
Salud to Companero Daniel Swanson...