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...guise of his title character, 29-year-old Theophilus North. Like Wilder, the young North (who remembers his stories in extreme old age) is an escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman. He is also an infernal meddler in other people's business, more or less in the spirit (much diminished) of Jesus, Socrates and George Brush, Wilder's insufferably virtuous hero in Heaven 's My Destination...
...students ignored the introduction as juvenile, others were angered by it. Some mailed copies of the booklet to all 40 university trustees and to the National Review, whose publisher is a Princeton alumnus. The magazine denounced the Handbook as a "scandal," and Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., a Yaleman, suggested in his syndicated newspaper column that the "Princeton Maoists begin their revolution by cleaning up sexual immorality in Princeton...
...idea was born in the mind of Tom Southwick. "I Wanting to insure that the Yaleman not emerge unscathed in their economies with Harvard in the event of an Elis football victory, he suggested that The Crimson play the role of the defender of Harvard's honor...
Endless Orders. An athletic Yaleman ('48) who studied both drama and finance, the younger Spyros expects to achieve even greater revenues with new vessels of a type called LASH (for lighter aboard ship). LASH ships will carry cargo prepacked in 73 barges or lighters, which can be dropped off and picked up in each port; the ships themselves need not even dock. Because LASH ships will spend much less time in port than conventional vessels, the Skourases figure that they will be perhaps three times as productive as ordinary ships...
...ruling. The third says he will quit after this year. Out-of-state faculty recruiting has been curtailed, and as the remaining outsiders move on, they are not likely to be replaced. Morse himself has not yet been sacked, but there are rumors that he may be. Laments Yaleman Michael Trister, a dropout: "The great experiment at the law school is almost dead...