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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole business apparently began from a widespread feeling that the freshman year at Harvard is not all that it might be, at least as heretofore constituted. This feeling manifested itself in the discussions of a number of Faculty committees, and doubtless, too, in many formal exchanges. As Dean Bundy puts it, "we get an uncommonly large and peppy group of people here, and many of us have felt a continuing need to find new ways of sustaining the excitement these people have when they come to Harvard." Under the present set-up--the inference seems quite apparent, if not explicit...
While over a quarter of the students at Harvard College are in some way identified with Judaism, only a tenth of them are members of Hillel. The others hold a wide variety of political and religious views, according to the questionnaire, and a large number indicated that their ideas were still in a state of flux. Some of their answers indicated a confusion, or at least a transition in many attitudes towards religion...
...religious revival" that has attracted so much national attention thus does not represent an upsurge of religious feeling in the traditional sense--i.e. increased church attendance, greater number of baptisms, or greater religious fervor. The current change in feeling actually represents a renewal of interest in religion. This heightened interest is reflected more in campus discussion than in church attendance figures--although more students than ever before have attended Memorial Church in the last five years...
...affirmative were among the least frequent participants in synagogue activities. Significantly, the Orthodox Jews, whose religion is woven inextricably with daily life, indicated less than 15 per cent affirmative. Among Conservative Jews over 20 per cent regarded synagogue connection as essential, while Reform Jews showed the highest number affirmative, 30 per cent...
Although few men--even in the academic community--possess sufficient courage to tag themselves as active "radicals," a suprisingly large number accept the political proposals that the Respectable Radicals put forward. While the group retains its popular identity as "liberals," its program, in many cases, is decidedly radical...