Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Autumn, like so many other things, is a tradition at Harvard. Each year when October whistles through the Yard and along the River, when the nostalgia for the summer past is replaced by the excitement of football weekends, when undergraduates begin to think about women and parietal hours and changing traditions, the Masters retire to their respective catacombs and wait for it all to pass...
...arouse widespread student protest, Kennedy hopes to weaken a key argument of those who oppose his bill. As Senator Richard Russell said in debate last summer, "I have not received a single complaint from a young citizen of my state who feels he is insulted by being asked to say he believes in the Constitution of the United States...
...attempt to separate consideration of the two parts of the NDEA loyalty provision--the controversial affidavit, and the relatively innocuous affirmation--Kennedy hopes to avoid the confusion which aided his opponents in last summer's debate. "I just cannot understand," said Senator Styles Bridges, for example, "why these young people--yes, and their august teachers also--would not deem it a privilege to take this oath...
Early in the summer, it was uncertain whether Dean von Stade would need the entry for freshman housing, but Wigglesworth J has now been definitely assigned to Dudley, and its residents are regular members of the "commuter" House. Although some local students have already expressed interest in the vacant spaces, Leighton hopes that others will apply. In addition, any upperclassman now in a residential House who wishes to apply for the program on the basis of serious financial need, may file a petition with the Administrative Board...
...understood that the Deans' office looks with favor on the plan, originated by the executive board this summer...