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After public hearings in May, the Joint Subcommittee on Economic Development and Manpower and Housing and Land Use recommended that the Council adopt an order giving blue collar jobs top priority in Kendall Square development...
Harvard must adopt a deliberate equal admissions policy which entails devoting equal personal and financial resources to recruiting, scholarships, and personal services for men and women as well as assuring that qualified men and women teachers and workers will be hired in equal numbers. The Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices should be combined to make the pursuit of this goal feasible...
Current alumni and the students graduating today can make a substantial contribution to the equal admissions effort. They can lend their support to today's women's demonstration by contributing to Harvard only with the stipulation that the University adopt an equal admissions policy. Contributions for this purpose can be sent to the equal admissions fund established by the Radcliffe Class...
...schedule, with its late September beginning and tardy end in June, also seemed destined only a month ago for an ignominious end. At that time, approval appeared inevitable for a proposal that Harvard adopt an "early semester" plan, which would move back the beginning of the first semester two weeks, enough to allow the completion of Fall exams before Christmas vacation. The proposed calendar, currently followed in some form by 80 per cent of American colleges, scheduled the Spring term...
...calendar revision is indeed postponed another year, if calendar-revision advocates do adopt Schram's attitude, and if the Class of 1977 doesn't take up where this year's freshmen leave off, the "early semester" plan may disappear as quickly as it became an issue. And if the traditional calendar remains intact, Harvard alumni returning to their alma mater in the future will be assured that at least one bridge still remains to the good old days...