Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worried; older brothers had died in World War II. The headline in The Crimson's 1950 Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect of the Korean War for most of '54 may have been the time wasted taking non-substantive military courses...
...this prank laughs off a more serious theme of the class's years here. McCarthy scared Harvard. Charging that the faculty was "pink-tinged," he created an atmosphere of mistrust and precipitated internal struggles at the University. David L. Shapiro, professor of Law, says, "The fact of McCarthyism was our significant external concern--the only time we felt acutely the presence of the outside world...
...that bastard Joe McCarthy get away with destroying honest people," he said. "The one thing I can't forgive Ike for was that he didn't stand up for George Marshall when McCarthy attacked him." In retrospect, veritas was virtue as much as it was fact, passion and integrity as much as it was knowledge and beauty...
...that was OK. The fact that the Dean of the Faculty didn't want me along for his 'talk and tour' made me feel very much like a Harvard undergraduate again, and my personal uneasiness slowly dissolved amid the bustle of my classmates in the Yard
...well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office. From this realization, it followed that the Biko Fund would not have a diversionary effect on funds donated to the Harvard Gift Fund. In fact, unless it reached levels of phenomenal proportions it would merely free up other money within the Harvard Gift Fund pool...