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...half years later. Yale has 1000 more women but overcrowded dorm rooms, student pressure for more women and community protest against more college expansion. In an open memo Brewster this month declared coeducation a success, but further expansion out of the question...
When the New York Times queried its correspondents in search of some campaign wit, one reporter replied last week that "your request for a memo on Nixon's humor is probably the most humorous aspect of the entire situation." It has been that kind of oh-so-serious campaign, and even half a laugh is scarce in most reporters' copy. Fortunately, readers of the Times and other papers can resort to Columnists Russell Baker and Art Buchwald, who seem able to coax a smile and sometimes even a belly laugh out of the most somber events...
Graduate students may pick up copies of Dean Dunlop's memo to department chairmen concerning job placement procedures in University Hall...
...through the '60s, the word reform bore, for many liberals at least, a talismanic quality; in reform lay progress, amelioration. Such may still be the case, but the editors of the Wall Street Journal are adopting a more jaundiced view of human affairs. In a memo to the paper's copy desk and all its bureaus, William Kreger, national news editor, has banned the word in all headlines and copy "when there is any doubt whether it applies...
...This year some of George McGovern's youthful volunteers are practicing the same Dale Carnegie tactics. Some of those who are not are getting themselves set straight. In Wisconsin, for example, McGovern headquarters mailed out instructions to some 70 state schools and universities. "Guys who canvass," said the memo, "should try to look halfway decent. Every freak must have at least a pair of slacks and a shirt. Similar for chicks. We have to play the game to at least some extent to win, and an ill-dressed freak might arouse the straighter qualities of some residents. So please...