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What then limits the corporation? Berle goes back to William the Conqueror's ancestor Duke Rollo, who, along with his successors in Normandy and England, was about as absolute a wielder of power as political history knows. Yet Rollo, says legend, was impelled to proclaim that any subject who felt aggrieved could appeal to him by crying "Ha Rollo." This appeal to "the conscience of the King" became the foundation of liberties as the Western world knows them...
...everyone, of course, the clubs have not waned in importance, as the Deans' Office found out several years ago. In the Rollo book, University Hall made the error of belittling the influence of the clubs on the undergraduate. Outraged alumni of the final clubs would not hear of such heresy. They beleagured the deans with protests, pointing out that many of the most active alumni and boosters of the College have been members of final clubs...
...Rollo admissions book tells prospective Freshmen that one of the juiciest cultural plums awaiting them at Harvard is the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert series in Sanders Theatre. Yet, at these monthly concerts, the mellowed brass of the B.S.O. play mostly to the privileged brass of the University, not to students. Faculty members, instructors, and mysterious "friends of the University" monopolize the seats, and for an undergraduate to get a subscription, he needs more connections than a switchboard...
...only to keep its word in the Rollo book the University should let some students into the Sanders concerts. A judicious pruning of subscribers no longer attached to the University would help do this. So would renewing the sale of the forty "rush" scats, which students used to line up to buy the day before the first concert. In these ways, at least some student music lovers would be able to enjoy the B.S.O. in full dress and full score...
Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, admitted that the Handbook is "considerably changed" from those of former years. The full extent of the policy shift will be revealed late next week, when the "Rollo Book," officially entitled Information About Harvard for Prospective Students, and the pamphlet on college expenses are ready for release...