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That is something to which Yearbook editors seem to have devoted precious little thought. Politics invading the academy? Revulsion towards the Establishment? The euphoria of McCarthy's "Kiddie Corps"? It's buried in there somewhere, if you read between the lines (which incidentally is made easier, and in some cases necessary, by sloppy proofreading and make...
...faculty level. Neither the Board of Overseers nor the Corporation concerns itself with whether a Social Relations concentrator is required to take junior generals. That power has been delegated to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which in turn has delegated much of it to the departments. But precious little of it has been delegated to students. Even while students are seeking such control, however, they are entitled to a voice on University-wide matters...
...whole place has a precious air of olde fashioned Americanness: wooden beams on the ceiling, pewter saltcellars, and murals. One has the merry muffinman wheeling his muffincart past a streetsign marked "Muffin Sq.," and another shows a bunch of Harvard students alighting from their horses, obviously discussing the local muffinhouse, which serves simple but solid fare...
...started to melt. It's remarkable that a nation that was betrayed by the West is able to accomplish the liberalization, with re-establishment of some of the basic freedoms, without outside help or interference. The question arises: Is it worth it or justified to fight Communism with precious American blood in the jungles of Southeast Asia when the same system seems gradually disintegrating from the inside in Central Europe...
...taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory. It was a clear threat to West Berlin's most precious asset-its free access to West Germany-and as such, posed a potentially greater peril to the city than even the hotheaded students...