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Yesterday's activities started off with a series of talks by Harvard officials. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, John B. Fox '59, dean of the College; L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid; and Margaret McKenna, vice president for Radcliffe program planning, all addressed the sleepy-eyed prefreshmen...
...council's resolution will be submitted this week to President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid L. Fred Jewett '57, along with a request for swift action on the matter, Council Chairman Sesha Pratap '84 said after the meeting...
...Fred L. Glimp '50, vice-president for alumni affairs and development, says the enthusiasm he witnessed was "heartening." Glimp added that he remembers one poignant moment when 103-year-old Erskine Wood'01 arrived in a wheelchair for a dinner in Oregon. Wood sang President Bok a song, spoofing the president, which he and his classmates had sung to College president Charles W. Eliot in their senior year. Another group, recent graduates who all work for Microsoft. Inc., came to the same dinner wearing t-shirts sporting "Harvard Club of Microsoft...
...Fred C. Robinson, widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Old English, said yesterday that he communicated his decision to Harvard officials last week...
This said, one must still allow for that rarest kind of consistency that is neither funny, dull, hazardous nor stifling. Call this the sublime consistency, which, instead of delimiting the truth enhances it - the consistency of an Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Alec Guinness or Isaac Stern. But then, life itself has been inconsistent in producing such consistent pleasures. And once in a while, a consistency comes forward that is both sublime and foolish, that of Don Quixote, for instance, who mounted his premise and stayed the course, eventually proving less mad than inspired...