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...Walter Isaacson's cover story about the very likely imminent death of newspapers is exactly the kind of wake-up call people need now [Feb. 16]. I have been a daily newspaper reporter for more than 14 years and have never seen such a dire situation. A world without local, daily papers and the content they provide would be a very sad, uninformed and dull place. Ken Ross, WARE, MASS...
...Harvard had not changed enough. A straw poll held by The Crimson revealed overwhelming student support for Herbert Hoover, FDR’s Republican opponent. The Crimson, his former paper, would later brand FDR “a traitor to his fine education.” Classmate Walter Russell Bowie, class of 1904, noted “the rancorous and almost hysterical political animus which rose against him and what he stood for among the privileged groups to which many of the Harvard graduates happened to belong.” Despite his cool reception on campus, FDR invited Harvard...
...recreates the story of the first Olympics in a town faced with a devastating olive oil crisis and the impending destruction of the Hp (Ate-a-pi) frat house. The ragtag group of townspeople receive the aid of Hugh, who is sent by his rhyme-loving father, Dr. Zeus (Walter B. Klyce ’10), to help the town and earn for himself full divinity. Hugh’s uncle, King of the Underworld and Lord of the Hotpants, Hades (Tom R. Compton ’09), schemes against his nerdy nephew, arranging a competition between Hugh...
...Center on Saturday evening to complete its three-match weekend. Both teams forfeited the 125 weight class, and Wagner jumped to a 7-0 lead with wins at 133 and 141.The Crimson responded by taking five of the next six matches, with the most impressive performance coming from freshman Walter Peppelman (149), who pinned his opponent in only 9 seconds. O’Connor (24-2) followed suit, pinning his opposition in 55 seconds, Harvard extended its lead to 18-9 when Andy Olsen (174) earned a pin of his own in 2:40.Caputo (24-4) and rookie Sean Murphy...
...nominee in this year’s election, Walter K. Clair ’77, who is a professor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said he was contacted by the alumni association several months before candidates were announced to gauge his interest in serving as an Overseer. Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and former Crimson editor Linda J. Greenhouse ’68—who for three decades covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times until her retirement last year—was perhaps the most high-profile figure on the HAA roster...