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...course, The Rivals has the happiest of endings. Sheridan's people have no identity crises, are not neurotically repressed, suffer from no mal du siecle. They are amusing children skipping through a sophisticated world. And to a world-weary college student they are blissfully refreshing...
...order to its cha otic divisions. Today he is a vigorous member of G.M.'s finance committee -and has 688,046 shares, which will yield him $3.1 million this year. Close behind, with 645,176 shares, is John Lee Pratt, 84, who came to the com pany from Du Pont in 1919 and rose to become a G.M. vice president. Now a retired Virginia farmer who shuns publicity, Pratt so successfully keeps out of public view that he is not even listed...
...there nonetheless. No simple response to those thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, the Harvard Malaise is a nagging self-dissatisfaction, a dearth of inner order, despite any personal triumph. The fact that the undergraduate rarely enjoys unqualified happiness registers not so much a nebulous mal du siecle as a fairly specific mal de Universite, a heavy burden of melancholy, a perrenial discontent of spirit. He doesn't know why. He just feels "sort of lousy...
Although neither charge involved the DU Club, Warren C. Moffett '51, graduate president of the Club, said last night: "The club is horrified. He was replaced as soon as we learned of it. The Club cannot tolerate any conduct in breach of the law. But we were perfectly satisfied with his conduct within the club--in that respect he was exemplary...
Smith tried to explain away the incident, Gallagher said, by claiming that he occasionally had minors help him at the Club and gave them drinks in payment. These incidents did not enter into the charges on which Smith was tried, and the DU Club itself did not figure in the court trial last week...