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Daniel Steiner agrees with Kriss, saying, "There certainly was heavy outwardly-directed political activity, but inward-directed pressures to change the University were much less." Steiner should know--he has handled student protests at Harvard as general counsel to the University and chief aide to President...
...Harvard of the mid-'50s certainly fostered feelings of security and self-satisfaction. Harvard hired maids to clean student rooms and make beds until 1953. Schoolwork sometimes interceded in the quest for a good time, but several class members allude to the easy availability of the "gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol...
Harvard countered the charges with cautious defiance, but some class members recall times when administrators forced students to consent to the Harvard line on McCarthyism. Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Calif.) remembers being "upset when the Harvard administration was very accommodating to him [McCarthy]." Beilenson and other members of the Committee on Academic Freedom, a part of the Student Council, passed a motion of censure against the administration. But after McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty, met with members of the committee, it withdrew the censure. The Council disbanded the Committee on Academic Freedom a few days later because...
...this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which we had little interest." McCarthy's threat to Harvard began to disappear as the Class of '54 was leaving. Concerns of the student body returned to subjects from which its collective attention had never strayed very...
...focal point of student social life, and important events to Radcliffe women in those days were the dorm "jollyups," roughly equivalent to today's mixers. The jollyups were real meeting places, for, as Dorothy Elia Howells '60, author of "A Century to Celebrate": Radcliffe College 1879-1979, reports, a Harvard man could call a Radcliffe woman and tell her he had met her at a jollyup, even if he hadn't, and be virtually assured of her going out with him. On the other hand, The Crimson in September, 1950 said, "Jollyups are famous for the 5-2-1 quota...