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...cast our gaze on specific events and time periods out of the totality of our existence and relate to them holistically; we can take our souls into the past and walk through the "hallowed halls of Harvard" and out of them into the U. S. A. of the late nineteenth century, as Martin R. Delany, William Monroe Trotter, or W. E. B. DuBois. In our old selves we will meet some of the same ghostly notions in white that haunt our lives today. Squinting is natural at first, but soon we see, and when we return to America '71, Harvard...
...logic that the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet which described the town in which this man's college was located, showed, in its street guide, that every street and avenue bore the name of an Eastern college (a Harvard Avenue) or historical figure prominent before the westward expansion of the nineteenth century...
Together, the two look completely out of place, utterly bewildered in their environment. We accept them neither as actors nor as nineteenth-century Westerners. Instead, they turn the conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady...
Future Reports will include a separate review of the CRR and its stormy activities. According to Dean May, the changes the University has experienced since the election of students to committees has been as significant as that of the nineteenth century when the Corporation first delegated major powers to Deans and Faculties...
...play about the life of Georg Buchner, the nineteenth-century German playwright, has won this year's Phyllis Anderson Play Award, A Public Exposition, by Charles F. Sabel '69, was chosen from among eighteen unproduced plays by Harvard students to receive the honor...