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As a Radcliffe correspondent for The Crimson her freshman year, Priscilla B. Potter ’61 witnessed the debate over integrating Harvard and Radcliffe organizations reach its pinnacle during the 1957-1958 academic year, after surfacing in University Hall the previous year.
Bridell, then Judith A. Gilmartin, was one of several Harvard students who took part in either this program in Poland and the USSR or an academic student exchange between the Soviet bloc countries and the United States. Both had the stated goals of promoting a cultural appreciation for�...
Gail W. Lapidus ’59, who went to the USSR on an academic exchange, said she found a radically different Soviet Bloc than she had anticipated and that these trips into Communist territory helped to “humanize” the area to Americans unaware of actual...
The Cold War climate facilitated academic competition among countries, due to the USSR’s Oct. 1957 release of the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into space. But changes in the landscape of higher education suggested more than just a race against Russia, and the 1957-1958 academic year...
Gordon added that he and his two other suitemates made their way to Segal’s academic adviser to express their concern.