The start of the P-rade

Published in the July 7, 2010 issue

John Hutton ’82 painted this scene in gouache of the start of the P-rade after ­returning home from attending the 60th reunion of his father, John W. Hutton ’50. The artist, an art history major at Princeton, is chairman of the art department at Salem College in Winston-Salem,...

Jim Leach '64's crusade

In response to: Uncivil society

By Randolph Hobler ’68

Published in the July 7, 2010 issue

With respect to your cover story, “Reaching for Civility” (PAW June 2), however laudable Jim Leach ’64’s effort is to restore civility to political debate, what is infinitely more important is the content of the debate, not the manner in which manners are missing. The most...

Leach's legislative legacy

In response to: Uncivil society

By Burr Loomis ’61

Published in the July 7, 2010 issue

I have never been able to understand PAW’s love affair with Jim Leach. You have always treated him as one of our finest, a true example of Princeton in the nation’s service. But his greatest accomplishment in his 30 years in Congress was as co-author, with former Sen. Phil...

Clarifying a court ruling

In response to: Uncivil society

By Nels Runger ’53

Published in the July 7, 2010 issue

Mark Bernstein ’83’s interview with Jim Leach was well done; I wish Leach success in his attempts to bring civility into political discourse. My one quibble with the report was Bernstein’s reference to “the recent Supreme Court decision striking down limits on corporate campaign...

Competing for a Rhodes

In response to: In pursuit of the Rhodes

By John Logan ’66

Published in the July 7, 2010 issue

As the former Princeton Fulbright program adviser, I have a question: Is it possible that our students’ success in the competition for Rhodes scholarships in comparison with that of applicants from Yale (Notebook, May 12) is simply a fact of numbers? By which I don’t mean...