Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claverly Hall by eight Harvard police and eight Cambridge cops in four squad cars called in by Harvard to arrest us. At first they refused to tell us what we were charged with, but conferred for a half hour trying to figure out the most serious offenses they could get away with booking us on. In the end we were charged with idle and disorderly conduct (max. penalty: a year in jail). disturbing the peace (6 mos. and a $500 fine). and defacing private property...
Competing for the Crimson is certainly rather tricky business. There's no gurautee that you'll make it. We're looking for students who can demonstrate competence in some field, however narrow. But remember that it's not as difficult as getting into Harvard or Radcliffe. Few people who stick out the entire competitiin for any of the four boards get cut in the end. Persistence, initiative. and some work at developing the skills you obviously possess will get you elected...
After you get elected, the Crimson becomes a veritable smorgasbord of delights. Even if you never do another stitch of work for us. you will always be a Crimson editor. It is hoped that you will work for us after election, but there are no chains. And if you get elected on one board, you're free to try our hand at something else. Our current president started out selling...
NEWS BOARD: Competing for the News Board is the fastest, most efficient way to get an aerial view of the bright and dark sides of this wonderland which we call Harvard. It really helps put things into perspective. The News Board Comp also happens to develop skill and facility at writing the English language better than any Expository Writing section. The Board is looking for people who can combine the greatest simplicity with a quality which, for want of a better name, we call style. News editors write on topics ranging from national elections to Faculty intrigues to freshmen riots...
What is our view of the Harvard undergraduate? Does the humanity of our view get translated into policies and practices that honor high principle and solve the contradictions which those principles incur...