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Students have also expressed concern that the demolition of residential properties and the rental policies of the University have resulted in hardships to the poor and elderly residents of Cambridge and Boston. In the past decade Harvard has acquired by purchase 535 dwelling units in Cambridge of which a majority were in apartment houses. During the same period the University has erected 528 dwelling units for faculty and students and 879 rooms for single students. Of the total 535 units acsuired, 179 have been demolished or otherwise withdrawn from the housing market...
Harvard has won the Biglin Bowl for the past four years. M.I.T., which won the Bowl in 1963 and 1964, should be a strong contender again this year, according to Harvard coach Stephen Gladstone...
DURING the past week serious proposals for reforming the University's governance have been cut off with the curt remark, "You'll have to ask the legislature." This warning assumes that a political problem--the legitimate distribution of power in this community's government--cannot be solved legally under existing Massachusetts statutes. It also suggests that if state legislators are given an opportunity they will impose their reactionary will on Harvard to prevent a fair reform. Most who think about these problems conclude that they will have to be satisfied with whatever half-measures the Corporation and Overseers might...
...Rosewater fame, shares a mental hospital ward and his favorite author with Pilgrim. Ilium, N.Y., hometown of Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, makes its third appearance in that role. And, finally, various progeny and siblings of Winston Niles Rumford, co-star of The Sirens of Titan, motorboat past Billy Pilgrim's bedroom window on his wedding night...
Considerable resistance will be met, of course, in trying to persuade the University's two governing boards to allow these reforms even if they are possible--the old men who run the University appear quite willing to risk shutting down Harvard present to serve their vision of Harvard past. But if reform is impossible, it is not so for legal reasons. --JAY BURKE