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...recipient of Harvard's big bats (32 runs, 41 hits--27 yesterday--in the last two games) was freshman hurler Ron Stewart, who had as much trouble in recording his fourth and the Crimson's twelfth triumph of the season as the number one picks in the housing lotteries have in finding a good room...
...This is the winter of our discontent." The Shakespearian line keeps pounding in the brain as you watch the aging Henry II of The Lion In Winter try to hold together the tenuous union of twelfth century fiefdoms he had built. But with one son unable to understand why a house must be undivided and with the other wickedly conspiring with his mother to usurp all, Henry doesn't have much of a chance from the start. By staging the play this weekend, the Leverett House Drama Society is readapting an adaptation, known better as the movie version with Peter...
...dominate Massachusetts politics as much as they once did, but their families are still very much in evidence. Saltonstall says that his first loyalty was to his family but his second was to Harvard. He represented the tenth generation of Saltonstalls to go to the College; the twelfth generation is now in Winthrop House. The Saltonstalls, Lodges and Peabodys are now among us. The elder Saltonstalls and Lodges probably hope their families will continue a tradition of public service. But meanwhile the rest of us must wonder whether the same preoccupation with national security and neglect of other national priorities...
...Spence, assistant dean of the College, explained last week that this system will not only increase the number of groups receiving their first choice, but it will alleviate some of the misery students suffer when they are assigned to their twelfth choice House...
...choice system forces people to think about the distinction between their eleventh and twelfth choices, when there probably isn't much of a real difference in preference," she said...