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Letters.
--Remember when one of the popular battle cries of the '60s was, "Tell it like it is!"? We must have more of Roger Kimball ("Dr. West and Mr. Summers," Jan. 28) "telling it like it is." In his Harvard tale he constantly, unerringly, hit the nail on the head. This story of Harvard's hypocrisy and shame left no bent nails: Every one was hammered straight and true.
Mike Lostritto
Culebra Island, Puerto Rico
--Re Jay Nordlinger's piece, "Is There a Dr. in the House?" (Feb. 11): When I was in graduate school, one of my professors was a Ph.D. psychologist. He did some work at one of the local hospitals, where he always parked in spaces marked "Doctors' Parking Only." That is, until they changed the sign to read "Physicians' Parking Only."
Al Dubinsky
Pittsburgh, Pa.
--I recall that Darrell Royal, the highly successful football coach at the University of Texas, was granted the title "Professor." Faculty of course objected. Someone told a protester that if he developed the best department in the country, he might be granted the title "Coach."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Letters.