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...thirties.“I am not a member of the Communist Party, I have no personal knowledge as to whether or not there is any Communist Party activity at Harvard or anywhere else,” he told Sen. Harold H. Velde’s committee.Citing the Fifth Amendment, Furry refused to speak to the Velde committee about communism. Over the next three years, Furry and Leon J. Kamin ’48 would be called to testify about their ties with the Communist Party and to name others in the party. Though they initially refused, they eventually revealed...
When poet Jean Valentine ’56 was an undergraduate at Radcliffe, she says the campus was “a much more divided world.”At the time, she recalls, women were not allowed into Lamont Library, which houses poetry recordings on the fifth floor.It wasn’t until Valentine returned to Cambridge in the fall of 1967 as a Radcliffe Fellow that she was able to listen to the recordings that she had longed to hear as a student. “I think it was a conservative world that had been there...
...sports. "I'd never been a groupie," she says. But when her employer, the health-care company Kaiser Permanente, sponsored the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat in a long, narrow boat decorated at bow and stern with a dragon's head and tail. Pollonais-Britt, 52, climbed aboard with 21 co-workers for what she thought would be a few practice sessions...
...school” and the addition of jointly-endowed professorships. For Harvard to compete with schools such as Princeton, Caltech, and MIT in attracting top students and professors, DEAS must expand both its faculty and its international prominence. Making it easier for undergraduate engineering concentrators to take a fifth year to complete their more rigorous requirements is important, too, as the move would enable these students to take more liberal arts electives, as well. The proposal establishes a coherent plan by which all of these beneficial changes can happen. The only possible objection to the expansion of DEAS appears...
...fight: the Vatican strikes back" [May 8] reported that the Roman Catholic Church is not changing its position and will not condone condom use under any circumstances. As a former Catholic, I rue the day when I confessed to a priest that I used birth control after having my fifth baby. That man said I was sinning and read the riot act to me. He had a lot of nerve! The church's policy against artificial contraception is nothing short of medieval. Mary Thomas Garden Grove, California, U.S. The Fruits of Colonialism Re "Exit strategies" [may 8], on European anti...