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Although I do not concur in Dean von Stade's particular formulation of the issue of male-female ratio in Harvard College, I detect something rather disingenuous about the uproar the lib-minded female students have made in response to his views. I refuse to believe, as the outcry from the libs would have us believe, that they were unaware that such views were common to men of von Stade's generation, and even to men much younger. Their own fathers after all, hold such views, as did their granddaddies...
Those who stayed at home cut further into the dreams of their time. Schnorr von Carolsfeld's entwined lovers jump from a cliff, in erotic slow-motion; romantic fascination with the "inseparability" of love and death was never put more concisely than in this smooth, slick image of sexual harakiri. Johann Hummel transformed a granite bowl, erected in the Berlin pleasure gardens, into an object as disquieting as a flying saucer: with fanatical precision, the tiny reflections of passers-by are caught in its mirror-polished surface, twisted and topsy-turvy, as though Magritte had been let loose...
Brugmann's next assault was aimed at "SuperChron"-the Examiner and Chronicle, which have merged their printing, circulation, business and advertising departments. When syndicated Washington Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman cited the merger as an example of monopoly, "SuperChron" refused to run his column. Brugmann tried to buy advertising space in both papers to run the Von Hoffman piece, but was refused. When he accused the Examiner and Chronicle of playing monopoly, an ad salesman retorted, "We're not a monopoly. There are lots of places you can go to advertise. Why, you can go right across the street...
...there is not enough room in their Houses for upperclassmen returning from Radcliffe they will be allowed to transfer to Mather House. Mather Master F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. said, "Men moving from Radcliffe will be encouraged to transfer to Mather. We have rooms available...
...Philip J. Lowry '71, who had invited von Stade to speak, said afterwards that von Stade's letter alone had not prompted the invitation. His visit, Lowry said, was part of a Comstock program of inviting Faculty members to dine with students...