Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Autumn, like so many other things, is a tradition at Harvard. Each year when October whistles through the Yard and along the River, when the nostalgia for the summer past is replaced by the excitement of football weekends, when undergraduates begin to think about women and parietal hours and changing traditions, the Masters retire to their respective catacombs and wait for it all to pass...
Regardless of the merits of his legal arguments, there are several objections to the test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half...
...itself administers, and from the grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist in the effort to release all federal funds from the affidavit restriction. As a leading academic institution, Harvard must be exemplary in its protest against all loyalty restrictions in federal aid to education...
...Student Council last night unanimously approved a plan to establish a 30-man permanent committee on educational policy. Based on the assumption that the student body is "the largest unused poll of creativity and intelligence in the Harvard Community" the new plan envisions a representative body of students that would work closely with the Administration and discuss "basic problems of educational philosophy" in the College...
...University will honor former President A. Lawrence Lowell at a 9 a.m. meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall this morning. President Pusey will speak on "Mr. Lowell's Legacy to Harvard," in commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lowell's inauguration as President...