Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to extract money from some of these institutions, Collins has suggested that, without altering their tax-exempt status, they should pay to the city a "donation in lieu of taxes," similar to the procedure that both Harvard and M.I.T. follow in Cambridge. But this proposal is not as simple as it may sound, for, while the city is poor, so are the colleges...
...Harvard Combined Charities Drive has dropped the World University Service from its list of recommended charities, the HCC Committee announced recently. The Service is an international student relief agency that emphasizes aid to refugee students...
...unusually excited audience filled Sanders Theatre Friday night to welcome what might be termed the "new" Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra on the occasion of its opening concert this year, and the debut of its conductor, Michael Senturia. It was a triumph all around as the orchestra, after recent years of mixed success, proved itself to be one of Harvard's most important performing groups...
...take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this is not an easy issue to resolve, but in my judgment, Harvard would be remiss in its specific educational function to all its students if its actions as well as its curriculum didn't speak for freedom--and of course students who think otherwise needn't come to Harvard, and are free to go elsewhere to colleges that interpret their responsibilities...
...making a fight," I can only testify from my own experience that one doesn't know how many allies one has until one makes a fight (or enemies either), and that in this case there are many people, including government officials and "politicians" who would be indebted to Harvard for recalling them to their best selves. To see this happen--to see apparently monolithic nihilism or apathy give way--is also educative...