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...predecessor. Whereas the original committee consulted with over 80 educators from colleges, universities, secondary schools, labor unions and industry; the present committee has largely limited its interviews to the Gen Ed "shop," i.e. to those concerned with administering the program at Harvard. Whereas the Redbook Committee published a 267-page volume addressed to a national audience, the Doty Committee thinks more in terms of a fifty-page pamphlet which, though it may be of interest to other colleges, will be written largely-in Harvardspeak. And, whereas the 1945 committee prescribed changes in curriculum without reference to actual classroom conditions...
...National Defense Education Act until its obnoxious affidavit had been eliminated and his courageous defiance of Senator McCarthy, Pusey has followed the practice of every president of Harvard since Cotton Mather, and kept out of politics. Faculty radicalism has scarcely existed during these ten years; despite the full-page ads to which readers of the New York Times are accustomed, most politically-minded Faculty members now seek a snug berth in the new Liberal Establishment. Consider the behavior of two who are still at Harvard: Samuel H. Beer, who once founded the Americans for Democratic Action, found a reason...
...always agree with the administration. On April 21, 1961, the CRIMSON ran a small article on the bottom of its front page, innocently proclaiming "Lingua Latina Mortua Est." Less than one week later, several students gathered in front of Widener to hear an orator proclaim that Harvard should keep Latin diplomas even if the University became "the last light in a darkened world." Within three hours, more than 2000 students had participated in a riot which rivaled the proportions of the famed Pogo riot, complete with tear...
Undergraduates cooked up another campaign that year--for the official formation of the Ivy League. Along with the six other Ivy student newspapers, the CRIMSON ran a front-page editorial arguing that no other measure would preserve amateurism in college football. The seven college athletic directors agreed to meet on the problem, but there was little immediate progress except for the addition of Penn-Harvard game to the existing inter-Ivy contests...
Gwaltney mustered a dozen like-minded alumni editors to produce "American Higher Education," a 32-page insert that 154 magazines snapped up in 1958. Next year the editors got a Carnegie grant of $12,500 to finance "The College Teacher." When 249 schools bought that one, they returned the money unused. Forming a nonprofit corporation, they went on in 1960 with "The Alumnus"-reaching 2,858,000 readers in the process. This year's insert on academic freedom, written mainly by Gwaltney, is a balanced study of professorial rights and duties that asks alumni for "understanding...