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...panting haute cuisine speed freaks. Getting the ice cream out of the molds and onto the gateau genoise only took a moment, and we beat and we beat and as the laughter of the dinner party increased out beyond the doors, the egg whites refused to form their coveted stiff shiny peaks. We beat and we beat, and our guests' voices became louder and at the same time, somehow, farther off. There was music now, and singing...
...smaller schools, Groton and St. Paul's, are apparently not as badly affected by this decline in interest. Although Groton's director of admissions, David Rogerson, noted that "the competition isn't as stiff as it used to be, and the classics scholars are getting worried about a decline in intellectual
...know all of this. Maybe it's something like these thoughts that has made so many of you junkies of one sort or another. But you know enough to keep a stiff upper lip and go about your puttering. There probably isn't much we could do, even if we tried. Lunacy is very deeply rooted in this country, and I suppose in other lands...
...friends, keep a stiff upper lip. You freshmen and sophomores, maybe even juniors, to whom all this sounds a little strange: you just wait. You can get through it. If a full professor ever warns you that he can screw you on recommendations because of a news story you wrote about one of his committees, you just smile and pretend you didn't hear. He's probably a pretty nice guy-almost every one is in one way or another. It's just that I came here from a small town where I somehow. very foolishly, got the message that...
...attract writers to submit their work and publish in the next issue, in April. Can you really, in good conscience, turn down this offer? You shit on the Advocate now, soon you'll want to spit on a Candy Striper. And for what? -last night I saw Fred walking stiff-legged down Bow Street toward Dunster House. He said that he had fallen on the ice and bruised his buttocks on a parking meter. He was wearing his slide rule strapped to his belt as usual, but he was carrying a camera, and a sketchbook, and under...