Word: severances
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Within the Yard, the Class of '84 saw a Henry Moore statue placed in front of Lamont, land a designer guardhouse by Johnston Gate. Sever Hall got a facelift, and lost the blackboard with "Do Problem 2A Only" mysteriously painted...
...tutors, led by Nicholas Sever, complained that the move treated them as second class citizens, and they argued before the legislature for the right to a monopoly of the Corporation. The fight lasted three years, and in the end the tutors won in what is considered an early victory for academic freedom, an issue the Corporation has had to deal with repeatedly since...
...Sever had been dismissed from the board because of his religious and political beliefs, but in 1725 he won reinstatement. For the next half century the Corporation continued in the English tradition with at least three Faculty members serving on the board. Not until 1780 did the neat, modern division of academic and supervisory policy power between the Faculty and Corporation became permanent...
...were in bed and sound asleep by the time the proctor, moving rapidly, reached our, lower, floor.) And I remember two other events, both sponsored, I believe, by the Lampoon. A distraught "mother," whose baby carriage had inexplicably and suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning, and the December mugging in front of the Coop of a Salvation Army "Santa" who subsequently set off in pursuit, bell ringing furiously, of the "thieves" as they ran down Boylston Street with bucket, tripod...
...days at Radcliffe, so that there would be no unseemly cross-infection. Harvard professors still trudged across the Cambridge Common to repeat lectures delivered in the previous hour to male students in the unpolluted classrooms of Sever Hall Many a faculty baby's birth was financed by the extra dollars earned by its father in these biweekly treks to the hinterland. There were, to be sure, certain professors who looked with horror at the incursions of women into the sacred precincts of Harvard College, even at the safe distance of the Radcliffe Yard, and would have nothing to do with...