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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer School to H. Francis Wilkinson, acting director of the school, and you'll first get a measured silence, and then a firm rebuttal to the legend. It's no longer a rest camp, if it ever was," he says. Queried about the percentage of Summer School students who come for relaxation and little else, Wilkinson replies, "There are some, but there are some in Harvard College too." He hastens to point out that, last summer, two-thirds of the summer students received only honors grades...
...where does the legend of the Summer School come from...
Another source of the legend is the history of the school. In its early years, it served two functions: allowing teachers to come back to college for refresher courses, and permitting students to make up courses they failed during the regular academic year...
...member summer student body, about 30 per cent go to Harvard or Radcliffe during the winter months. Despite their substantial numbers, however, the H-R students are probably not as evident around the Summer School as those who come from other colleges...
Despite such special programs and what appears to be an increasing seriousness on the part of the students, the Summer School still remains a most relaxed way to come to Harvard, if only for two months. It is perhaps symptomatic that the second paragraph of the Harvard News Office release describing the 1969 session read as follows...