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...diploma is not the sort of thing you'd be proud to frame," a spokesman for the Class Committee said. "We want equity with Radcliffe," another student said, noting that the women's college continued to use Latin on its degrees...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: 1961 Truth or Veritas? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...diploma controversy, however, did not end with the dispersion of the rioters. Bodgett threatened at the time to hand out 10,000 fake English diplomas on street corners, and Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci warned, "I, being of Latin ancestory, will carry this fight to Dr. Pusey...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: 1961 Truth or Veritas? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...days later, Vellucci pushed a resolution through the city council asking Harvard to reconsider the diploma decision. In Washington, meanwhile, McGeorge Bundy, who was dean of the Faculty at the time the decision to change the diplomas was originally made, denied that he had convinced President Kennedy--then a member of the Board of Overseers--to support the change. The Overseers voted two-to-one in favor of the new diplomas after Kennedy's support became known. Only a protest by the Administrative Board saved the cum laude notations from being set in the English "with honors...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: 1961 Truth or Veritas? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Blodgett said the Class of '61 letterhead bears the Harvard seal with the motto "Truth" inscribed on the three books where "Veritas" is traditionally set. His own diploma, he believes, is in English, but, he notes, "its been a very long time since I've looked...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: 1961 Truth or Veritas? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...most any standard, he is an anomaly among college students, and something of an anachronism. Married twice, 27 years old, a four-year Marine with four military ribbons to his name, caught between the We and Me generations. Chuck Hamlin will clutch his diploma today and cherish it as the culmination of a nine-year personal odyssey. He has come a long way. How many Harvard students finished 485th out of 522 in their high school class (and admit it without blinking)? And how many Harvard students participated in the evacuation of Saigon in April...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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