Word: class
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Hanify '71, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council was easily the most popular speaker at the symposium. Clyde E. Lindsay '69, a member of Afro, also received praise, but the venom was heaped on Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
...call bull sessions in those days, but it never really occurred to us to act on the ideas we developed or the things that bothered us. Students today are probably brighter and more politically oriented than we were. In a way I envy them," said one member of the class...
...during a debate over dormitory visiting hours, the CRIMSON used the word "sex" in a headline, and the next day the nation woke up to news of a sex scandal at Harvard. Two years later, when Faye Levine '66 launched her clever campaign for Harvard Class Marshal, the papers couldn't write enough about this encroachment on the male domain. When Linda G. McVeigh '67 was elected the first female managing editor of the CRIMSON so much publicity attended the event that she stopped answering the telephone. Bored fellow CRIMSON editors invented quoted from her to give to reporters...
...Encore '44'" the Harvard Class of 1944's 25th reunion, comes to a halt today. With all the traditional hats and hoopla the graduates partied and picnicked their way through what one class member called "the best week of my life...
...main topic of conversation, surpassing all reminiscences and talk of children and jobs, was the spring revolution. Most of the class backed President Pusey, while expressing some sympathy for the idealism of youth today...