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...debate over the best way to fund minorities' student groups. After lively debate on both sides, the constitution was eventually approved and is still in effect today. Allegations of discrimination at the University, then as now, caused controversy. Theda Skocpol, then a candidate for tenure and now the outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, accused the University of sexism, the Director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences controversially called on society to exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality," and Women's Studies struggled for meaningful recognition as a degree-granting concentration. Many...
...words of Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, “I can’t think of anyone who’s done more to shape the modern Harvard at the grassroots level than Fred...
...nearly five decades as a Harvard administrator, L. Fred Jewett ’57 oversaw the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices, expanded the scope of Harvard’s recruitment efforts beyond white male New Englanders, and later in his career—while serving as Dean of the College—made the decision to randomize the House lottery...
...increased salaries for professors, an area in which the College was losing its previously “unchallenged lead to which no small part of Harvard’s present greatness may be attributed.” In a report to the Class of 1930 given by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy in 1955, he wrote that professorial salaries have not been able to keep up with the rises in cost of living. According to Bundy, since 1930 the salaries of full professors at Harvard have risen 30 percent while the cost of living...
...Others [non-students] all became quite vocal about theater and quite vocal about the fact that Harvard did not have a theater,” Aaron says, recalling the determination of then Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy to secure a dedicated performance space for students...