Word: planned
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...course offering. Brown said he was not mainly objecting to the courses' political orientation, but rather to the technical problems the courses caused by having undergraduates and non-students act as sectionmen. The director of Soc Rel 149, Jack Stauder, said the Brown's complaints and a rumored plan to transfer the courses to the Gen Ed department were "attempts at political suppression...
After President Roosevelt's fireside chat in 1943 when he lowered the draft age to 18 and abolished student deferments, President Conant called for the conversion of Harvard into a war college. According to his plan, Harvard and other Ivy League schools ceased to provide college education altogether and devoted themselves to training local high school graduates for the military...
...Committee on Education Policy started processing the five-month-old Dunlop Report on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty. The CEP approved an important section of the report dealing with re-arrangement of Faculty titles. Under the approved plan, Harvard would abolish the rank of "instructor" and hire all new Ph.D's as "assistant professors. While nothing that the Faculty's budget problems might force it to hire fewer men, the CEP also recommended higher salaries for Faculty members...
Nine thousand Bostonians went to Boston Gardens for the "eleven Votes for Peace" rally, which many Harvard students had helped plan. Onetime Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy told the crowd to work for "dove" Senatorial candidates, but McCarthy surprised some party officials by failing to say anything about Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign...
November 10: The Medical School revealed plans for a new program of pre-paid community health care. Med School planners said they hoped the plan would lead a national shift away from antiquated systems of dispensing medical care. The Harvard Community Health plan would set up a health center in nearby Roxbury and would emphasize preventative medicine as a way of keeping its patients out of the hospital...