Word: classe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of '59 had several other distinctions. It was the last Class to escape the $10 admission application fee. It was not, however, fortunate enough to escape a tuition increase of $450 during its undergraduate career, from $800 to $1250, an unparalleled tuition rise for one Harvard class. Harvard was also the first class in which the Advanced Standing Program was implemented. Although Advanced Standing did not have a large beginning in the Class of '59, the Program has seemed a successful one, and appears to be playing an increasingly larger part in the composition of the College...
...Class of '59 did equally well four years after admission in receiving grants for foreign and domestic study. Members of '59 received 32 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, two Marshall Scholarships, one Fiske, at least 13 Fulbrights, and five Rhodes Scholarships. Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars are selected each year from all over the United States. This year Harvard received more Rhodes Scholarships than any other college in the country except West Point, which also received five. '59 received more Rhodes Scholarships than any class in the history of Harvard...
Academic accomplishment suggests the main shared value of all modern Harvard classes--that of scholarship. '59 was "brighter" than any Harvard class which preceded it. Its average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests were higher, as was its predicted academic performance. '59 quickly fulfilled its predictions: in its Freshman year, it placed a higher number of people on Dean's List than preceding classes...
...Class of '59 did not spend all its time trying to open libraries during its Freshman year. The Union Committee staged an attempt to gain separate but equal parietal hours with those of the upperclassmen. Like most attempts to change parietal hours, this too was unsuccessful. During the fall of its freshman year, '59 also participated in one of the more spirited riots undertaken by Harvard undergraduates. After a pep rally preceding the Yale game, students demonstrated, then charged to Radcliffe. Once at Radcliffe, however, the group suffered from lack of purpose and dismissed after wandering around the Quad without...
...Class of '59 lived through a changing era in Harvard-Radcliffe relations. "The urge to merge" Radcliffe and Harvard organizations reached its high point in the last two years of '59's tenure. The autonomy of Radcliffe organizations was even more a thing of the past with the mergers of the Yearbook, dramatic activities, and political organizations...