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...ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshal has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb, strike the stage three times with the scabbard of his sword and announce in a sharp Boston accent, "The meeting will be in order...
...cast its personal shadow more conspicuously on the College scene in the annual class marshal elections. Faye Levine tried to become the first girl class marshal of a Harvard graduating class. The 329 years of ivied traditions trembled, but they did not fall. The HCUA, in its own death throes, rushed to preserve Propriety. Amidst a pleasant furor, Miss Levine's candidacy was ruled invalid. But the candidate on the basis of some little-publicized election rules further sullied the election. The proceedings amply reflected the disdain, in which most of the class held the proceedings...
...Bent Brigham Hospital, two years ago: "In looking ahead from the vantage point of 1963, at a moment in time when medicine is caught up in the scientific revolution that medicine itself has so largely stimulated, a major question confronting all of us in this: 'How can medicine best marshal for the benefit of mankind the remendous output of new knowledge flowing from the medical sciences...
Working in the wartime underground, he hid Allied airmen in his Rome apartment. Hiding from the Gestapo, he slept on streetcars and in churches. He ended the war with a citation from British Field Marshal Alexander and a job as chief anthropologist for the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service. His duties: sorting and reassembling the bones of U.S. soldiers for shipment home. ("Can't you make it faster?" shouted the major in command. "Can't you make it faster!") In 1952, foreseeing a third World War, he fled to Brazil because "it looked big and green...
...Kremlin is making at least a partial effort to put its own history in perspective: Stalin, while not fully rehabilitated, is no longer treated as though he did not exist. In fact, his name was cheered last week when Brezhnev mentioned the late dictator in a Moscow speech. Marshal Zhukov, in oblivion for almost eight years since Khrushchev fired him as Defense Minister, also appeared, and was photographed in full military regalia last week. A Soviet law journal published an astonishing article recently, suggesting that the time had come for Soviet voters to have not one name but a choice...