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...philosophy" broke a traditional arrangement, and not everyone thinks that the tradition should be broken. L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president under President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28, said yesterday that "the University should leave things like insurance and real estate to the experts...
...becoming irrelevant on matters of peace and security, and runs the risk of being converted into a sort of international institute of technology or into an ineffective chapter of the International Red Cross." He added: "The discussions on the major international questions have become the chasse gardée [private game preserve] of an ever dwindling circle of major powers, and we are moving toward a concept of new centers of power upon which to build a new structure of peace...
...first order of business last Spring, however, was cleaning Harvard's administrative house, Bok eased out most of the administrators who remained from the tenure of President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28, including some, like L. Gard Wiggins, Pusey's sole vice president, who had no plans for departure...
...visits the ruined demesne of Uncle L, who is a mean and misanthropic 92 yoked to an equally mean woman who wants to inherit his land. Having no re gard for cattle, Uncle L has a herd of camels instead, along with spotted pigs, molting turkeys and a buffalo cow. Un cle L is a living figment - as well as a caricature - of the old, wild American dream. He still expects to encounter his hero, Emiliano Zapata, before he dies...
Returning letterman Dan Steiner '54 of the Bureaucrats commented. "We've lost our Gard, but gained a Champion, and will be watching closely for infringements of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...