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Harvard students, said President Nathan Pusey in a baccalaureate address, should have "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.'' Some clues to what the unembarrassed Harvardman may have in mind were offered last week in a special supplement to the commencement edition of the Harvard Crimson, the results of an 82-question survey of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Notable items...
...merely an Administrative device to elicit alumni loyalty and contributions. Before the advent of the Houses, however, in the days when Seniors lived together in the Yard, there is good reason to believe that the Class did play an important part in the life and memories of the Harvardman...
...three rather flimsy and ludicrous arguments against any extension: "displacement of roommates,..adverse effect of women on the emotional tone of a House, and...increased conformity." How two or four more hours a week with women in the Houses could wreak such devastation to the moral fibre of the Harvardman was not explained...
Jack Cabot is a Harvardman ('23) and Oxonian ('25), a good tennis and squash-rackets player, who tastefully collects art objects from around the world, and has a proper, frosty appearance. But the frost melts away when he smiles and stretches out a huge hand in greeting. He speaks five languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German), and in more than 30 years of U.S. diplomacy has led a fast-moving life in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Items...
...contrary, it is the quality of ingenuousness which is condemned and shunned as being only one step removed from gulibility, and two from stupidity. The mistrust of naturalness, of sincerity, and of humility, all of which are connected in the Harvard mind with ingenuousness, follows logically. The seasoned Harvardman is guarded and suspicious without provocation; if this is an unavoidable transformation which every student must under-go, then Harvard cannot claim to be a truly liberal intellectual community...