Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reischauer called Harvard "way out ahead" in the undergraduate program, since students accept a Far Eastern course as "a natural part of their studies." Political science, art, literature, and history courses have steadily increased in size during the years since World...
...Student Council may join an exchange program which will provide jobs in Europe for Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, Mahmoud M. Shabandar '62, representative in charge of the project, announced yesterday...
...probation for academic reasons, the Dean's report continued. Four per cent of the prep school graduates had their connection severed, double the figure for public school students. While alumni sons comprise only 20 percent of the class of '62, over 34 per cent of those withdrawing were from Harvard families...
...situation is an extreme one, however. Few other wives of the Faculty have so thorough a connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this...
...spite of the individuality of the Faculty wives, Harvard University is the inescapable social center for most of them. The large majority of the Faculty live in Cambridge, their friends are made within the departments. Even more corporateness is manifested than in a large business organization. It would be unusual to find all IBM employees living in the same neighborhood and to find them all friends. Whatever William Whyte may say of the organization man in business, to some extent this syndrome is ever more6Along with other Faculty wives, Mrs. McGeorge Bundy finds time for varied activities while raising...