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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intellectual life in American universities is faced by a "comparatively new and sinister enemy," according to Isaish Berlin, former Harvard lecturer on philosophy and first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World...
...Ralph Bunche, then a graduate student at Harvard, walked in and asked for a job. Phillips hired him; the future diplomat's first assignment consisted of scrubbing the floor. "Mind you," Phillips asserts, "he did as good a job scrubbing that floor as he did as mediator in Palestine." Bunche only worked in the store for a year, but his ability impressed his employer greatly...
This is the first musical program the Circolo has sponsored this year...
...first head of Harvard College was fired largely because he served poor food. Around 1800 food battles became so violent that the University had to abandon the idea of a common table. In 1926 Dean C. N. Greenough said he would welcome suggestions on how to solve the "food problem." Last year Dean Bender asked the Student Council to conduct a poll on what students thought of the food. Throughout this 300 year history of food problems many changes in the dining system occurred, always whenever protests became widespread and proved to be well founded...
Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which...