Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special to the SUMMER NEWS...
...general impression here is that the talks are at a stalemate and may be so for some time. Thursday mornings are likely to see the same ritual enacted long into the summer, and perhaps far beyond...
...topic of the Summer School comes up during wintertime dinner table conversation at a Harvard House, the course the talk will take is fairly predicable. One student will moan about the hours he wasted at Yard punches, while a second will cut him off by reminiscing about "that girl from --" that he met at the self-same punches. A third, after throwing in a few comments about sunbathing on the banks of the Charles, will end the conversation with a conclusion running along the lines of "All in all, it's not a bad excuse for playing away the summer...
Such are the views of many, perhaps most Harvard students. To them, the Summer School is not their Harvard, but rather a strange sort of recreational activity that takes over Cambridge during the warmer months of the year. It's the sort of attitude that make buttons reading "I Go Here in the Winter" fast moving items among Harvard students summering in Cambridge a few years...
Mention this legend of the Summer School to H. Francis Wilkinson, acting director of the school, and you'll first get a measured silence, and then a firm rebuttal to the legend. It's no longer a rest camp, if it ever was," he says. Queried about the percentage of Summer School students who come for relaxation and little else, Wilkinson replies, "There are some, but there are some in Harvard College too." He hastens to point out that, last summer, two-thirds of the summer students received only honors grades...