Word: progressives
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...representation on the Administrative Board of the University, representation on the Corporation, and participation in tenure decisions—that were more far-reaching than the ones that the Dowling report recommended. But in the end, an endorsement for the first-ever funded student government was considered to be progress enough...
...According to Bruce G. Schoenfeld ’82, editor of The Crimson’s sports board at the time of the stadium renovations, ths student body paid noticeably little attention to the project’s progress...
...policies may no longer be threatened by federal funding cuts to higher education, but many of the challenges and controversies experienced at Harvard by the Class of 1982 remain important issues today. Then as now, Harvard's relations with local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate Council raised perennial questions of effectiveness...
...Harvard Today, a magazine dedicated to disseminating information about the program and encouraging donations from the college’s 45,000 alumni. Overseen by managing editor Frank Pemberton ‘42 and editor Bentinck-Smith, the pages of Harvard Today were filled with news about the progress of the campaign and features that emphasized the utility and necessity of the PHC. Among the contributors to the first issue were Bundy, White and then-Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy...
Though most undergraduates at the time were not following the progress of the PHC, they could feel the housing pinch that spurred it. The seven existing houses—Adams, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop—were built for a normal capacity of 1,846 undergraduates, according to the October 1957 issue of Harvard Today. By 1957, that number had ballooned to 2,955. With the funds from the PHC, an eighth house was to be built by 1959. In March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe...