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SINCE THE painters have become an issue, the University-long the bastion of free thought and inquiry-has gone to great lengths to prevent dissent. Crew chiefs have been told to call the foreman (who is supposed to call in higher authority, including the police if necessary) if radical students speak to painters while on the job. Robert Murphy, an assistant foreman, ordered CRIMSON reporter Reay Brown to leave a building where painters were working. It was a Harvard dorm, where a student is normally permitted. It is a campaign to intimidate the workers. (As union officials have admitted privately...
...blanket charges against the Center as a bastion of United States imperialism would be comic, were it not for the despicable methods and threats which accompany them, and for the willful ignorance of the Center's resources and operations on which these charges are based. It is in the interest of all members of the Harvard community, regardless of political opinion or field of study, to condemn and to discourage what, under the noble pretense of fighting imperialism, amounts to nothing but an ominous attack on academic freedom...
...traditional bastion of scholarly dialogue-lunch at Harvard-will have its dignified calm forever ruffled next Monday, when women will be admitted. The girls will, however have to pay $1.30 for the privilege...
Another male bastion has fallen. After 222 years of masculinity, Princeton College last week opened its portals to 171 coeds enrolled for the fall term. The girls reported a warm reception. Consider, for example, June Fletcher, 18, a statuesque blonde from Elberon, N.J., who was named Miss Bikini, U.S.A., this summer. A ringer? Not at all, said an admissions official, pointing out that the lovely Tigress was in the top 1% of her high school class and won several public speaking contests. Purred June: "I've met so many boys today, they're all just one big blur...
...earlier part of this century, Harvard was viewed, in large measure correctly, as a bastion of Yankee privileges. Town-gown clashes took on the added dimension of ethnic squabbles. An Irish mayor named Sullivan would denounce a Yankee president of Harvard by the name of Conant: Boston newspaper headlines would recount the clash the next morning. For the most part, Harvard reacted to the Irish influx much as the Boston Brahmins had: the University made itself into a citadel and generally stood aloof from the rest of Cambridge...