Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-five years ago the Magenta appeared in a college which stood at the beginning of a period that was to change it from a small classical institute into a world-famous university. Harvard was entering its golden age, the age of President Eliot, and already some of the changes could be noticed...
...during my career on the CRIMSON that the famous case of the scrubwomen occurred. I don't recall the details now, but the central issue was that Harvard was paying a certain group of scrubwomen less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague...
Daily "comment sheets" by the editors note the progress of eager candidates. "Conant," runs one of these memorializing the efforts of a now famous College president, "escapes only because he didn't have the chance to blunder...
...Another famous incident concerned the initiation of one Dan H. Fenn '44, who was required to sit in the front row of Professor Merriam's History 1, read the CRIMSON from front to back; and then crumple it up and stalk out as the lecturer droned on. His subsequent return to official grace provides an accurate indication of the values of CRIMSON training...
...appreciation of the "training and inspiration" that he received here as an undergraduate, famous Detroit art collector John S. Newberry, Jr. '33 is loaning part of his collection of drawings and water colors to the Fogg Museum. The exhibit will open on February 12 in Galleries II and III at the Museum and will continue throughout the month of March...