Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the inconveniences of the present ones, is an extension of the hours on Friday night from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. In a College without the facilities of fraternities for entertaining women, the Houses become the logical and only place to do so. There can be little protest against making the hours on Friday night the same as on Saturday. One can say, however, that the proposed two hour extension to 10 p.m. will represent little improvement. A couple forced out of the Houses at 10 will still have the problem of where to go until the girl...
Veritas members nevertheless sent out hundreds of letters to classmates and alumni acquaintances, urging protest against the appointment. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 wrote to the Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 (then Chairman of the Board of Overseers), asking "whether or not you now approve of the Oppenheimer appointment as William James lecturer," and "your views as to Dr. Oppenheimer's moral qualifications to lecture on the subject of ethics and philosophy." Though Robertson's letter began with some valid questions (the second never answered), it ended with a polemic...
Though it failed to block the lectures, this campaign was not without its effects. The Harvard Administration was quite thoroughly alienated by what it considered a vindictive and useless attack. Edwin Ginn '18, an agent of the Harvard Fund, dramatically resigned his post in protest against Oppenheimer's appointment. A group of undergraduates revived a small organization called the Harvard Athenaeum in support of Veritas and later the Committee gave financial support to the conservative review Fortnightly...
Oppenheimer came and spoke, of course, and left. But the Veritas group soon made it clear that their protest extended beyond Oppenheimer's appointment to "communist infiltration at Harvard," and the College's "trend to the left." In '57 and '58, two further issues were raised: the professional integrity of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and the appointment of Mark Zborowski as a Research Assistant in Social Anthropology...
English 10 dropped soundlessly from the course catalogue last year, with little or no protest from English concentrators, faculty, or students at large. But its absence has lessened the number of courses in the English Department which try to give a historical perspective to literature and, perhaps more important, has discouraged some nonconcentrators from taking courses in the field...