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Harvard is too busy looking out for itself to support community activities in Cambridge, Alfred J. Vellucci, mayor of Cambridge, said last night in an informal discussion in Thayer Hall...
...honor code that has become so important to West Point -and the U.S. Army-began under Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent from 1817 to 1833. A Dartmouth man with a backbone of iron, Thayer changed West Point from a humdrum school for the sons of wealthy families into a first-class engineering institution. After studying European military systems, he also imposed on the cadets a kind of Prussian discipline that lingers today. Thayer had strict rules against lying and stealing, and what was called "irregular or immoral practices...
...Fred Thayer, Harvard...
First stop is Thayer Hall basement: Headquarters. Tacked up on the wall behind and above the head of the porter captain with the watchful eyes, there is a sign that reads: THOU SHALT NOT DRAG THE VACUUM CLEANERS. The captain sports an understandable frown considering the hour, "It's only eight o'clock," he says. "I have a nine o'clock class, wanna get it over with," the student porter answers. "You're supposed to work two hours in a row, it's not good to split it up like this." "I know." says the student porter as the captain...
Today, however, the student porter does a thoroughly admirable job, completes his assignments and heads back to Headquarters. Back in the basement of Thayer, he is greeted by three smiling captains and Tom Curly '78, captain of the captains, who tells him, "We've decided to promote you. You realize our other areas of responsibility include trashing, mailroom and mounting posters. Most of the posters you see in Emerson and Sever were put there...