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Louise Pollak: Whitman; NSA; Choral; house committee; "Drumbeats and Song...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...certain other readers will remember seeing your story about those girls at Whitman Hall, Radcliffe, who sent out 100 post-cards at random to various Harvard men to get dates for a party. Now it is not the purpose of this letter to question the type of girls who would be willing to ask 100 strange men to a dance. Nor is it my purpose to question the sensibleness of the authorities who would authorize such action...
Mary Ellen Reffert '54 and Ants Burgett '54 (pictured left) "thought up the party as a means "of breaking the monotony of reading period." The scheme won immediate approval from most Whitman girls, and the Head Resident finally acceded...
Late last week the dauce committee selected the names of 100 Harvard phone subscribers to be Whitman's guests for the affair. Most all of the 100 chosen students, and some of their uninvited friends, accepted the Whitman offer to leave the books...