Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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October is the cruelest month for Masters. In the face of Fall weekends they must enforce the directive that parietal hours in the Houses terminate at 8 p.m. on Saturdays of home football games. And, strangely enough, Harvard has scheduled six home games this year, five of them...
...years, been chipped away, undergraduates have become, not less, but more responsible. Of course, Masters are, by their nature, a reticent lot, holding back where possible, conserving a tradition in the face of criticism; but it seems blatantly unfair to assume that if an argument for the responsibility of Harvard students has to be made it must necessarily come from the undergraduates themselves. Surely the Administration does not have to await a show of militancy before it acts for the benefit of the student body...
...domination, but freedom for responsibility which forms the basis for the relationship between the undergraduates and the Administration. Masters need not wait for a revolution, for it will not come; but perhaps they will decide, as they have in the past, that the nature of the student body at Harvard demands less motherly restraint and more self-restraint. Football season and the cry for parietal changes will pass, but October will come again and again...
...Harvard Law Review has announced the new members for the year...
...years ago an issue of local and limited concern came before the Harvard community in the form of the Memorial Church 'Controversy.' Both student body and faculty responded with dedicated fervor and concrete action. This year an issue of national and nearly unlimited concern has come before this community in the form of the attachment of a disclaimer affidavit and a loyalty oath to the NDEA funds. Harvard's response to this issue has been marked by its lack of fervor and action. That this apparent anomaly should exist suggests a reproachable peculiarity of the Harvard community and a breach...