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...that summer I took the Geography of Africa, on which I got a comfortable C, maybe even a C+. I lived in the Lampoon building with Fred Gywnne '50, the actor, who'd had trouble with his "gut" course. Someone gave us a rabbit and it had run of the Great Hall. Zero Mostel, the great moon-faced actor, came to have dinner one night and he put his face down at table-height and he and the rabbit stared at each other for a few minutes. I remember that very distinctly...
Longtime Harvard administrator Fred L. Glimp '50 says Gill is "as close to a Renaissance man as I've ever met," calling his former colleague "the kind of a guy that--if he weren't so nice and so kind and impressive in a human way--everybody would hate him because he's so dog-gone good at almost anything he puts his hand...
...women who truth-talk are quickly marginalized. Senator John McCain, fighting first for campaign-finance reform and now against the cigarette makers, is presumed by the public to be a great candidate for President but equally presumed to be unable to get his party's nomination. Senator Fred Thompson was on the short list of presidential candidates until the G.O.P. club turned on him for supporting McCain's bill and trying to hold bipartisan hearings. The honest-to-a-fault Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan became a quirky elder statesman while still a young man. Colin Powell...
...statement then-Dean of the College L. Fred Dean Jewett said that randomization was not "set in stone" and could be reexamined in several years. We believe the time has come for the University to reexamine its policy of randomization, and we urge them to consider the input of students, tutors, and alumni/ae. We support the desire to increase student interaction, but the current effort leaves much to be desired. In our opinion, randomization, especially in the absence of alternative mechanisms to provide for the social well-being of underrepresented minorities, is not the right answer. We urge the University...
Calling the 1995 decision by then-Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to remove choice from the upperclass housing process "shortsighted," the tutors cite the need for a College-wide reexamination of randomization in an open letter which was delivered to administrators yesterday morning...