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...Sen. John C. Culver (D-Iowa) agrees: "For most of us there was not a lot of dissatisfaction. We saw only a few issues requiring reform...
...been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue to the Soviet embassy in New York as a gift from the students of America to those of the USSR. The treasurer of the Lampoon called on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to investigate this trafficking with the enemy...
...most part, Harvard, led by President Pusey, who succeeded James B. Conant in 1953, refused to yield to red-baiting. Yet news stories like this one in a late 1953 Crimson were common: "In a defiant reply to charges made last week by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, President Pusey yesterday declared Harvard is 'absolutely, unalterably and finally opposed to Communism,' and so far as he knows there are no communists on the Harvard faculty." Earlier, an accusation by a former Central Intelligence Agency agent forced John K. Fairbank '29, then professor of History and now Higginson Professor of History Emeritus...
...experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines and Sen. Joseph MacCarthy (D-Wisc.) sought to label John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History a "red" in January 1954, Radcliffe students of the early '50s conducted inter-dorm song contests and fought off periodic raids by the men down Garden...
...guests tackle more serious fare tomorrow--a morning seminar featuring President Bok, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, and Dean Rosovsky, who will discuss "Harvard Today," and an afternoon session on "Government: What Has It Done for Me Lately (and can I afford it)" led by Class politicians Sen. John C. Culver (D-Iowa), and Reps. David Bowen (D-Miss.) and Anthony Beilenson...