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...ways to improve Harvard-Radcliffe affiliation. Doubtless Radcliffe should have a permanent representative on the Committee on Educational Policy; the voluntary, non-credit seminar program should be open to Radcliffe; the Honors program in General Studies might well be extended; resident tutors would intensify the College's intellectual atmosphere; Agassiz would make a great student activities center (were it not one already); and House-hall affiliations are a lovely idea. But somehow it all seems a little familiar...
Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...
...many ways typical of the tenor of the whole campaign. Kennedy sat with schoolboy composure, taking notes and speaking calmly. Nixon added to the annals of history's best bloopers with a remark about solving the farm problem by abolishing the farmers. And at Agassiz, three 'Cliffies fell asleep...
About 30 were clustered around Agassiz's new TV set for the opening of the Debate, and for the most part everyone was obediently interested. Nevertheless, there was a sense of disappointment at the placidity of the affair, probably because both candidates lack any real flair as speakers...
...spite of this cloudy past, the Harvard Summer School, the oldest in the nation, with 1960 making the 85th consecrative session. Professor Asa Gray started vacation sessions in 1872. For a six-week period, he gave special instruction in Botany, a successful experiment repeated following year by Professor Louis Agassiz. Other members of the Lawrence Scientific School--now part the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--later offered courses in Chemistry and Geology for their private benefit. Thus the Summer School was born, quietly, unnoticed by his historians or by the outside world...