Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale, which caught Dartmouth before the Green had fully recovered from its catastrophic visit to Cambridge, today encounters Penn, which may still be delerious from its upset win over Harvard last week...
Harvard in 1952 set a national precedent by allowing girls to visit boys' rooms for what now amounts to 35 hours weekly. Last month Emily Post would have said, "I told you so." Dean John U. Monro, "badly shaken up recently by some severe violations," declared that "what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now come to be considered a license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse...
What was going on? Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe (where boys can visit girls in their rooms up to 25 hours a week), saw "no indication that there has been any serious trouble." Harvard's boys and girls generally pooh-poohed Monro's alarm. But the usually tolerant dean, who feels that probably 90% of the students have high moral standards, is less concerned about incidents than about interpretation. As one senior revealingly wrote in the Crimson: "Morality is a relative concept projecting certain mythologies associated with magico-religious beliefs...
...high point in the campaign was Ike's pledge to visit Korea immediately if he was elected-a suggestion often credited to Journalist Emmet John Hughes, then a speechwriter on his staff, later author of a book bitterly attacking Eisenhower and his policies. Author Eisenhower, however, mentions Hughes not at all in this connection. Several groups were batting the idea around at the time, says Ike, and he gives most of the credit to Adviser C. D. Jackson. Hughes he later dismisses as "a writer with a talent for phrase-making." Ike takes due note of his own famed...
...news that the U.S. intended to drop the atom bomb on Japan. He thought it was a mistake on the ground that Japan was already defeated and "that our country should avoid shocking world opinion." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told him of the plans on a visit to Ike's headquarters in 1945. "During his recitation of the relevant facts," writes Ike, "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings . . . The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I gave...