"What I Did Was Wrong"

It was an open secret that Teddy Kennedy, the President's youngest brother, left Harvard under fishy circumstances during his freshman year in 1951. But not until last week did Teddy, now 30 and a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, get around to supplying the details. To a Boston Globe reporter he explained that a friend had taken a Spanish examination for him; they were caught, and the dean asked them both to leave.*

Teddy joined the Army, served two years in Europe, got back into Harvard and graduated in good standing in 1956. Then he went on to the University of Virginia and got his law degree. Concluded Teddy: "What I did was wrong. I have regretted it ever since. The unhappiness I caused my family and friends, even though eleven years ago, has been a bitter experience for me, but it has also been a valuable lesson."

& Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election--and won.

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