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...most recent plans for the library suggest that the building will consist of a simple memorial room to the late President and three major components: a museum, archives, and an institute. After public funds have been used to construct the library, it will be turned over to the federal government, which will administer the business of the library...
...Harvard Corporation announces that on the recommendation of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, it has commissioned architects Sert, Jackson, and Gourley to construct the tenth House in the form of a "windowless inverted pyramid." Sert applauds the Corporation on its "forward vision," adding, "I see no conflict of interest in my position...
...University nowwhere takes into account the average student who is neither promiscuous nor too immature for sex, and who seeks to construct for himself a healthy and meaningful sexual life. That is very difficult at Harvard. I think there is a great deal of truth in Paul S. Cowan's statement that University regulations tend to "brutalize" sex. But aside from the physical restraints of the rules, the University imposes more subtle, and perhaps more serious limitations on sexual development. In its public stance the University appears to ally itself with, and thus reinforce the hypocritical, out-moded, and anxiety...
Calling President Pusey's ideas "The Higher Conformity," Boorstin maintained that the leading tenets of this construct are "less affirmations than fears. Fear of the Outside World. Fear of Practicality, Utility, and Applied Science. Plus a kind of sentimental refugee-attachment to Pure Ideas...
President Bunting said that the plans for the proposed fourth house are also progressing, but the Council felt it would be advisable to construct the study center first. Thaddeus R. Beal, a Trustee of Radcliffe College, said that "If the Study Center is a success, and it looks like it will be, it will excite interest in the fourth house and then we can go ahead with...