Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways a typical 1965 freshman: getting drunk on weekends, pulling all-nighters and cutting some classes, primarily to prove my independence from parental authority, partly to get the feel in my gut of a new kind of freedom. And now, I am as typical a 1969 senior: unhappy with the formal education of Harvard College, loathe to go to graduate school, totally uninterested in business, less concerned about a career than about a life, wanting to create and worrying whether I'm capable, wanting to help and wondering how I can. And always asking myself, if not worrying...
...Army began last year to grant contracts for new Senior ROTC units to 15 selected colleges and universities each year. The first group of institutions included such schools as Brigham Young University, St. John's University of New York and other imminently respectable institutions. There are reported to be about 150 institutions of higher learning still on the Army's waiting list, each eager and willing to accept the contract terms which have prevailed for 50 years. Combined with low officer production and other reasons, this access to other college campuses might cause the Army to withdraw form some...
Seventy-seven of the Naval students are in the Regular NROTC program. These students were chosen for the program in their senior year of high school, and are expected, according to the Navy brochure, to be "reasonably disposed to making the Navy a career." While at Harvard, they receive Government scholarships covering all tuition, books, and room and board. The total value of these scholarships is presently around $230,000, and in an average year, about five borderline students are accepted to Harvard as a result of receiving this stipend. The non-Regular, or Contract NROTC students do not receive...
Russo said that the members of the Senior Common Room were not trying intentionally to experiment in coeducational living. "We were only looking for the best people. God knows they're often not men," Russo said...
Also named was Richard Blumenthal '67, former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON and last year assistant to Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. Blumenthal, who coined the term "New Middle," wrote his senior honors thesis on the Moynihan Report...