Word: c
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John C. Culver (D-Iowa) agrees: "For most of us there was not a lot of dissatisfaction. We saw only a few issues requiring reform...
...Harvard of the mid-'50s certainly fostered feelings of security and self-satisfaction. Harvard hired maids to clean student rooms and make beds until 1953. Schoolwork sometimes interceded in the quest for a good time, but several class members allude to the easy availability of the "gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol...
Harvard countered the charges with cautious defiance, but some class members recall times when administrators forced students to consent to the Harvard line on McCarthyism. Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Calif.) remembers being "upset when the Harvard administration was very accommodating to him [McCarthy]." Beilenson and other members of the Committee on Academic Freedom, a part of the Student Council, passed a motion of censure against the administration. But after McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty, met with members of the committee, it withdrew the censure. The Council disbanded the Committee on Academic Freedom a few days later because...
...more serious fare tomorrow--a morning seminar featuring President Bok, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, and Dean Rosovsky, who will discuss "Harvard Today," and an afternoon session on "Government: What Has It Done for Me Lately (and can I afford it)" led by Class politicians Sen. John C. Culver (D-Iowa), and Reps. David Bowen (D-Miss.) and Anthony Beilenson...
...Jean C. Spaans Gaithersburg...