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Dear Coach Norries Wilson,Like every other Ivy League football writer, I heard your rant after the Penn game two weeks ago. In it (for those reading who might not have heard), you blast writers from your school’s newspaper. You take on the Penn and Columbia administrations...
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last May, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 introduced a motion calling for all courses of five or more students to be formally evaluated, he unexpectedly provoked a minor uproar. Several professors spoke against...
“If one guy draws a cartoon, he’s a genius. If two guys draw a cartoon, one’s a plagiarist. If five guys draw it, they’re hacks, and if 10 guys draw it, they’re following a grand...
In a few weeks, Halloween will be forgotten in the new seasonal tradition: arguing about Christmas. Courts will be asked to decide if carols can be sung in public schools, or a Creche displayed on Main Street. The pundits on Air America and Fox News Channel will flash their tempers...
All this holy haggling puts me in a decidedly unfestive mood. So here are my final proscriptions on Christmas. Born-agains: if you want to emphasize the religious aspect of Dec. 25, you must pronounce Christmas "Christ Mass." And to you Scrooges, defiant against a hundred years of amiable American...