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July 11, 2012
Vol. 112, No. 15
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Questioning ‘verbal commitments’
In response to: EXTRA POINT: Recruited athletes and other unmentionables
By PAM PHILLIPS TORREY ’83
Posted on Aug. 22, 2012
I have been meaning to comment on the article in the March 21 issue by Merrell Noden ’78 (sports), and was reminded to do so after reading an article in The Portland Press Herald. The article was about lacrosse player on the Cape Elizabeth High School team. She is junior...
The P-rade spectacle
In response to: Get out the orange and black
By GUY K. STEWART JR. ’62
Posted on Aug. 22, 2012
The “idea balloon” on page 47 (Alumni Scene) of the May 16 issue prompted this letter. In my novel, The Spies from Princeton, I have a description of the P-rade, which may amuse you – and perhaps other alumni. Stacia and I do high school recruiting for Princeton, and when young...
Philosophy? No, social science
In response to: Philosophy tests
By STEPHEN E. SILVER ’58
Posted on Aug. 22, 2012
Although I am glad to see philosophy becoming less arcane and more down-to-earth, I have misgivings about the so-called “experimental philosophy” (cover story, May 16). Of course, it is interesting to know how people stand on particular moral issues, and to what extent we...
A response to letters on Israel
In response to: The quest for Mideast peace
By MARK R. DISLER ’74
Posted on Aug. 22, 2012
Mideast complexities are difficult to elucidate in limited space, as the Denz ’10, McCutchen ’50, and Scudder ’63 letters demonstrate (Inbox, May 16). While Israeli policy has hardly been flawless, at least some of these correspondents’ distortions and mendacities should be...
Look at historical facts
In response to: The quest for Mideast peace
By GERALD L. SHOWSTACK ’70
Posted on Aug. 22, 2012
Ken Scudder ’63 in his letter on “The quest for Mideast peace” (Inbox, May 16) is entitled to his myopia; I’m sure he comes it honestly. What is more troubling is his ignorance of historical fact. The U.N.’s 1947 partition plan was in fact accepted Israel and rejected...
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