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...program will assign each student to a volunteer adviser with similar academic interests. F. Skiddy von Stade '37, dean of Freshmen, said yesterday that the project in its first year of operation "had been a useful adjunct" to the present advising system...
...this ever-struggling world of Charlie "Metternich" Finely, Baron von Kroc (the Padres's mastermind of realpolitik) and Bob "Castlereagh" Short (since ousted from his Texas kingdom), the balance of power explains all. After a long winter season of pacts which guarantee support from the lackey ballplayers, baseball begins its annual summer campaign in early April. Once the campaign begins, cityteams continually battle to stay ahead, clashing as frequently as four or five times a week during those hot months of July and August...
...would be foolish to assume trained corporate analysts (Derek Bok, F. Skiddy Von Stage) are merely basing this decision on ideology. Nonesense, they are basing on statistics that indicate that in 20 years Harvard males (that means us!) will give more than females. And the sad part is they are right. Needless to say, the prospect of cutting a Harvard class in half is out of the question and it would be first doubled to "save" an endowment so large a separate investment fund is necessary, even at the ridiculous cost of worsening our housing situation. This is efficiency...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
While the wheel has been used for 5000 years, the bicycle was not developed until the last century. Will Baron von Drais de Sauerbach ever go down in history with Henry Ford? God knows he deserves to. The Baron's 1816 bicycle was a little crude, but it developed quickly. By 1884 it had evolved into a 21.5 pound cruising machine a point beyond which little improvement has been possible (today most bikes still weigh over 30 pounds...