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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senior Album distributed at the end of the Class' freshman year claimed that Harvard had just gone through a major internal upheaval, "the rise of social realism," lasting, conveniently enough, from 1935 to 1939. The class and intellectual leadership of the Beacon Street man was no more, the Album said; it had shifted to the scholarship holder from the West and Middle West...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Class of 1942 Had One Opportunity: War | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...years his senior, she was intense, beautiful, a gifted writer of fiction (she later wrote Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) and an assistant professor at Stevens College in Columbia, Mo. And so, with his marriage, his graduation and his conversion, he at last stood outside the long shadow of Beacon Hill. He would deal with its traditional claims upon him only in his own terms: in poetry. And he would write New England's epitaph rather than a Frostian celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

During the summer, Cambridge was stripped of the shield to which it had clung so many years--the veto. A new DPW commissioner, Francis W. Sargeant, went to Beacon Hill determined to get rid of the veto. And he did. Sargeant has become known in the Boston press, as an effective "salesman," and his meteoric rise in politics (he left the DPW in the summer of 1966 to run for Lieutenant Governor, won his race, and is now seriously mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor in 1970) is often attributed to his personable, but persistent approach...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Cambridge and the Inner Belt Highway: Some Problems are Simply Insoluble | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...case then moved to Johnson's court. In a 30-page charge to the jury, Johnson painstakingly discussed the American trial system as "a beacon of hope and a last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Interpreter in the Front Line | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Street, Porter Square--where Harvard and Radcliffe students tend to cluster. Like all such legends, some of the Cambridge summer-time stories are true and some are not--or, more accurately, they are more true for some than for others. Still, the mystique is what draws, shinging like a beacon as April drifts into May and pre-registration time comes around again...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Summer School Mystique: Thousands Come Every Year In Search of Harvard | 5/2/1967 | See Source »

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