Letters: Jan. 20, 1967

The Now & Future Kings

Sir: My husband, who teaches at Brown University, and I, who teach at the Rhode Island School of Design, are filled with enthusiasm and optimism for your young men and women of the year [Jan. 6].

Long hair and short skirts really are only variations on the crew cuts and dirty saddle shoes of our own generation, but the compassion, honesty, earnestness and lack of hypocrisy of today's student are far beyond anything that seemed possible to us.

MEG LIGHT Providence

Sir: Thank you for honoring us with a distinction usually...

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