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Bananas or Banannas. From the viewpoint of the ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
...inviolate that it should shield people who do such things. But if a Fifth Amendment professor can show himself free of these stigmas he should keep his tenure. This includes Harvard's own problem professor, Wendell Furry, if he comes back from his next testimony still wrapt in the Fifth Amendment. But we see no reason why the same standards should not be just as individually applied to known members of the Communist Party...
Last Monday, a series of large well-wrapt bundles appeared in the downstairs corridor of Sever. The bundles marked the culminating phase of a Great Improvement. They were the first of 1400 new desk chairs, tailor-made for Harvard and Radcliffe bottoms, to be installed in Sever classrooms during the next few months. For that venerable Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope...
...shall be washed as white as snow, By all the martyr'd virgins kist, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist...
...department: "... Professor Josef Schumpeter, formerly Minister of Austrian Finance, initiated 300 wrapt listeners into the theory of deposit creation and retirement...