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WHAT RHYMES WITH HERRNSTEIN?

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

With new wars starting almost daily, And liberation struggling gaily, while prisons explode that once were serene, How aptly SDS chose Herrnstein.

Harvard has not become so weary Of any psych prof since Timothy Leary, Whose propagation of hallucination Might be the altercation's origination.

For how but through distorted vision, Could mind perceive this tutor of pigeons To be the impetus unwilling Behind new sprees of trashing buildings?

He made no splash before Atlantic Monthly made some leftists frantic. And like as not, his fame will fleet, Leaving Herrnstein a secure professorial seat. Martin Fridson '74

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