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...vouch for the fact that "Sears gets letters asking advice on almost any human problem." In the early 1920s, I worked in the correspondence department. Many letters addressed to "Mrs. Sears" sought her opinion about clothes. Men wrote for help with farming problems, and one man even asked for a wife...
George Avis, owner of the Tasty restaurant, barks that he's been around "long enough to vouch for 25 years [of Commencements], at least." And to him, the week has nothing to do with increased business. "It's a chance to relive the past--that's the most important thing," he says, preparing a frank which now costs nearly a buck. "If anyone starts talking about how much money they're making because of graduation, then bah hum bug," Avis adds...
...leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...
...last thing I would like to do simply not because I can vouch for it, not because I necessarily agree with it, because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis...
Discrimination problems among employees at Harvard are hidden. Significantly, while every personnel officer and high-level bureaucrat with hiring privileges insists that there is no discrimination in his or her department, they will not vouch for others. The general feeling is that discrimination does exist, but everyone is quick to point out it is not in his nest. Nevertheless, there are two noticeable types of this "hidden" discrimination--above and beyond the indubitable predominance of white males in the ranks of senior administrators and tenured faculty...