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...used to be, until three years ago, that there was an elaborate system for calling students who were in danger of sleeping through their exams. There were special phone banks set up in exam rooms, and if a student was absent at the start of his exam a call would go out to someone in his House office, who would in turn call the student. The system was expensive, one of the little luxuries of life at Harvard, and it only affected three or four people every exam period. When the recession came, the wake-up network went...
Washington insists that it can best achieve a Middle East peace by being a "mediator" and not-as one senior U.S. official puts it-"a lawyer for the Israelis." But with Israel absent from the debate, the U.S. may find itself obliged to become the primary spokesman for Israeli interests. "Our role is made more difficult by the Israeli boycott," admitted a State Department official...
...Glass Menagerie is Williams' portrait of the artist as a young man. It is a family play, and as almost everyone learns sooner or later, home means both heart and hurt. In the home of the Wingfields, modeled on Williams' own, there is the memory of the absent father, the telephone-company man who "fell in love with long distance." The suffocating mother, Amanda, uses up all the oxygen in any room she enters. The crippled sister, Laura, is as fragile as her tiny glass animals, and the task of the artist-to-be, Tom, is to break...
This list, of course, is not exhaustive. In addition, many may object that the best winter sport of all is noticeably absent. Sources tell me, however, that some kind of partner is usually needed for this one, so I had to leave it out. Stay warm, stay healthy...
...that's bad news for the budget administrators, who view the empty beds as lost tuition, room and board revenue. How much the absent students are costing the Faculty is unclear, but University Treasurer George F. Putnam '49 said this week he thinks the impact could be "definite and negative...