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Sound trucks blared the order: "Wear shoes when you come to town, put on clean clothes, look tidy and decent. It is a shame to go walking around barefoot in your country's capital." Having just raised the minimum wage in Haiti from 50? to 70? a day, up-&-coming President Dumarsais Estimé was out to improve the appearance and living standards of his mouse-poor people...
...CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role? I subsequently came to the conclusion that it definitely was not, I think it was a case where the dirty linen could only...
Virginia-born Lady Astor, back in the U.S. for her third visit in two years, would winter in Arizona-and, of course, lecture a little. Her opening statement: "We've got to get Germany back on her feet. It's not only the decent thing to do, but it's a matter of self-preservation...
...this wasn't all slightly illegal on my part according to University regulations, he reassured me. "The only thing they don't like is groups of five or more." But what was the difference between this and the University's official tutoring bureau? "They don't guarantee you a decent grade. I can get you a B." And as for the official crackdown on tutee schools in 1940. "There was a lot of hypocrisy over at Harvard. If you're interested in journalism," he added, "it's a fascinating story...
...consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate the increasingly lonely standards of the Athletic Association with respectable standards on the gridiron...