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The Harvard Bulletin: A June sampler

"In very capable hands."

One has only to look at those hands: enormously large and elongated, and so full of flexion folds as to be a palmist's nirvana. Tricassus Mantuanus, Melampus of Alexandria, John de Indagine - those late-medieval heavies of palmistry would have gone bananas over Satch Sanders' hands....The vertical line from the wrist to the base of the middle finger is the line of fortune, and to an expert chiromancer like Tricassus, that line would probably say it all....Harlem to Harvard.

From a profile of Thomas E. Sanders, former Boston Celtics star and the new head basketball coach at Harvard.

Man and God at Harvard

Within the University are represented Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, the Divine Light Mission, the Process, agnosticism, atheism, and religious apathy. The Committee on the Future of Memorial Church has begun to consider the University's response to that diversity. It is a consideration that deserves far more public attention than it has received.

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From "The Undergraduate" column by David Cohen '74.

Jack Schmitt, the man from the moon.

Schmitt is a good-natured fellow, outgoing and quick to laugh, with a handshake untouched by the chill of outer space. He has black hair, brown eyes, a reported weight of 165 pounds, and - according to biographical data distributed by NASA - a height of 5 feet 9 inches. The Bulletin's man, at 5 feet 9 1/2 inches, had the sensation of being significantly taller than Schmitt; thought at the time that Schmitt's below-average height undoubtedly came in handy in space capsules; and on the strength of this can confidently report that when it comes to height, NASA lies.

Harvard's astronaut-geologist came to town to talk about moon rocks and the earth, and the Bulletin was there.

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