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...advisor has never told me who came up with the idea of the senior honors essay, or "thesis." Over the past month, spent in the bowels of Harvard's library system, fuming at various Vend-a-Card machines, I have developed a hypothesis. Many years ago a Harvard professor, denied a tethering spot for his horse and annoyed over his lack of adequate health coverage and benefits, decided to make everyone as miserable as himself...
Unlike the Marshall, which requires a minimum GPA of 3.7 simply to face the nominating committee, the Rhodes demands only personal leadership and a six-figure Vend-a-Card allowance. This laxity leads true fellowship connoisseurs to consider the Rhodes more suitable for glad-handing pseudointellectuals such as our nation's president...
...would like a 24- hr. bait house, because that's all it is really, a bait house. You sell it for $3,800. You take $300 down to assure yourself you have the order. You offer financing for $3,500. Payments of $120 a month to $150. This means Vend-A-Bait will cost the customer $4 to $5 a day--are you listening to me?--which means if he sells six or seven cups of bait a day (at prices ranging from $1.25 to $2.75), that business is self-supporting, O.K.? Space that was earning nothing...
...credit, the salesman reveals his past to potential Vend-A-Bait distributors. Such is the spell of his silver tongue that a remarkable number of people quickly dismiss the information. In the blink of an eye, the pitch can slide from McClintic's shady years to his next project, vending fishing tackle. "This is going to be a barn burner!" Rare is the listener who then exclaims, "Wait a minute! Did you say LEAVENWORTH...