Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referendum on the matter, specifically urging that Harvard not compute class rankings to be forwarded to local draft boards. In several days, they collected about 1500 signatures supporting the call for a referendum, and went to see Monro. The University Administration consistently resisted the referendum and the idea that the ranking policy become a matter for students to decide graduate Council and the Harvard...
Some University and city officials are clearly worried that the response to the Library will have unsettling effects on the Square: they forsee uncoordinated and unsightly commercial development that would detract from the 'Memorial' aspect of the Library. To control development, urban renewal has been suggested. Thus far, the idea has been discussed by the city officials, but nothing official has been proposed. The questions raised by the Library complex are serious ones that fundamentally affect the University environment. The issues of development crystalized this year; the course of development will loom large through the next decade...
...fall, however, there was an obvious receptiveness to ideas coming from students. The Harvard Under-Policy Committee, the two organs of student "government" at the College, made important proposals--and had them accepted (a major change in parietals came from the HUC, and the HPC asked that students be allowed to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis; this is still in the works). When Phillips Brooks House Association indicated it was in financial trouble, Monro, as head of the Faculty committee for PBHA, helped shape a proposal for aid from the Faculty of Art sand Sciences...
Renewal of the Square is not a new idea. It has been proposed publicly and privately by a number of city planners, officials, and prominent citizens...
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