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Now, it is easy to groan at, but impossible to quarrel with a tuition hike. It has been coming ever since the inflation of the Korean War. But any tuition rise at Harvard starts of frenzied grubbing for more scholarship funds, more student employment, and other ways to help the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chocolate Bar Financing | 2/4/1953 | See Source »

What makes such knifing particularly unpleasant is its appearance at the end of what appeared to be a renascence in official thinking. Last year, we could not blame anyone for suggesting that the House-masters were gradually sloughing off their social monasticism. Whispers crept about the college that a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Dirge | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

The matter of Mr. Amfitheatrof's quotation (in his article on the Salzburg Seminar) should be cleared up. I am the American student he refers to; but the sentiment he baldly states is not mine. When he visited me to discuss the Seminar, I offered to entertain with him an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Germans Unpleasant | 12/13/1952 | See Source »

Monsoon of the Heart. Han Suyin's A Many-Splendored Thing is frankly autobiographical. It makes uncomfortable reading because it so willfully, often tastelessly, exposes the deepest private feelings of its principals. Yet there are occasional moments of passionate feeling that almost give dignity to generally unpleasant revelations. Mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hong Kong Affair | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

It was a pleasant afternoon; the spectators and the players enjoyed themselves. But if the Crimson depends upon long set shots in regular season it will probably end up with an unpleasant, spotty record, brightened only by several big upsets on really hot nights. Shepard has a week to form...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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