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When the Undergraduate Council was first formed five years ago, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III predicted a short life for the new 89-member body. The council, Harvard's first student government in more than 12 years, would address a limited list of issues and then dissolve, he said at the time...
Others criticize the administration for taking too long to address racial issues and form organizations such as the Racial Harassment Committee. "Minority groups have been encouraging the university for years to take measures so subtle racism won't become explosive," Braxton says. "It's unfortunate that it takes a Currier House 'nigger strike force' to bring it to the attention of the University administration...
...morning of June 5, 1947, The New York Times informed its readers that Secretary of State George C. Marshall would be delivering Harvard's Commencement address that afternoon. "He is expected to deliver a speech which perhaps will include an important pronouncement on foreign affairs," the paper reported...
...Commencement Day audience anticipated that such important consequences would flow from the 15-minute address. The speech was well-received by the soon-to-be Harvard graduates, receiving a particularly loud ovation following Marshall's vow to withhold economic assistance from any "governments, political parties or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise...
Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus Milton Katz '27, who headed the administration of the Marshall Plan's European offices for a period of time, was present for the Commencement address. "I sat there under the sunshine and, I'm ashamed to say. I thought it was very interesting but I was not struck by the overwhelming importance of it," he says...