Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naval Radio School, which had started with a small group of University scientists in the Cruft Laboratory, had expanded by the fall of 1918 to 6300 students occupying Memorial Hall, Pierce Hall, Hemenway Gym and specially built barracks on the Cambridge Common. By spring 1919, however, the school was on its way to Chicago...
Eliot's military program, for everyone from 20 to 45 years old, needed officers. The old Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) was instituted in 1916. It was the quickest way of providing officers, but the program was at best an emergency measure. Harvard stopped all military training in the spring of 1919 to prepare a new program for the fall. The CRIMSON concurred with the postponement, despite "the desruction of enormous nations by the Bolshevicks and Reds and Sparticides...
After this spring's upheaval, however, the University is believed to have changed its mind. By all reports it now feels that it would be entirely appropriate to give a degree to the man who once said (in 1951) "Students? Hell, this country got along without them for 150 years. Why does it need them...
...have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed from his post by the regime: "Let us hope that by next spring flowers will be able to bloom again from the earth, and not from plaster...
...United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther compared the corrupt Teamsters Union to a fallen woman, and he headed the drive to expel it from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last spring, after he topped off an old feud with President George Meany by leading his own union out of the giant federation, Reuther decided that the Teamsters were not so bad after all. Last week the labor movement's Mr. Clean got together with its scarlet lady in a slogan-bedecked Washington hotel to exchange vows of solidarity forever. The U.A.W. and the Teamsters created something called the Alliance for Labor...