A la Recherche de 1965-66, Part 2

February

Stirred by a sense of fair play," the Harvard Policy Committee holds a referendum on whether to admit Cliffies as voting members. The 40 per cent of Harvard and Radcliffe that bothers to vote gives Cliffies a 71 per cent vote of confidence. Radcliffe agrees to pay off-campus houses 30 cents per student per day for "breakfast supplies." The Health services raise their fee to cover a 17 per cent increase in the use of their facilities. The CRIMSON makes its Spring announcement of the Ed School's now library.

It turns out that no Cliffies will be let into Lamont until 1967, if then. Harvard changes the routes of two temporary made so that traffic will not make Littauer Center inaccessible; unfortunately, building the roads involves destroying most of Littauer's trees and shrubs.

In his annual report, Dean Ford says that the greatest crisis facing the Faculty is poor facilities for science teaching and research. "Our physical wants seem endless," he sighs. Radcliffe settles its labor dispute by agreeing to keep ex-nightwatchmen at their former salaries. Sheldon Diets and the Coop begin peace negotiations.

The Adams House Senior tutor forbids off-campus students to live on Putnam Ave, because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse.

The University requires all professors with federal grants to file monthly reports on the time they have spent in research.

March

Harvard's room rent goes up $40, amid promises that it will not rise again for at least two years. President Johnson asks Congress to phase out the National Defense Education Act, under which 700 Harvard students are receiving loans. Harvard asks the Office of Economic Opportunity for money to help poor but smart Cambridge high school students. The Harvard Student Agencies begins a $150,000 fund drive, and the Divinity School a $6.8 million one.

One sophomore burns his draft card and another tears his up. Boston meat-packers tell SDS members that "anyone who's afraid to fight doesn't belong in America" and draw their attention to a nearby can of gasoline. Residents of the North End knock an SDS speaker down and kick him in the face.

Police disperse pickets when Maxwell Taylor visits Lowell House and arrest four Harvard students during an unsuccessful sit-in at the Boston Army Base. Twenty-three professors participate in a "speak-out" designed to keep the spirit of dissent alive. Two thousand dissenters march in Boston Common.

A Design School Student gets an Academy Award nomination for a short he made at the Visual Arts Center. Dean Ford suggests that the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee help the Committee on General Education evaluate Gen Ed courses, but asks that they work unofficially. "I have found that people in this community work best when they are not operating in formalized meetings," he observes.

The Corporation fires Samuel S. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath (all teachers in the Commonwealth must swear to uphold its and the nation's constitutions). Bowles obtains an injunction to prevent his dismissal until the Supreme Judicial Court decides whether the oath is constitutional. The University does not contest his action.

A Laredo, Tex, judge sentences Leary to 30 years in prison and a $30,000 fine for transporting and failing to pay a tax on marijuana. He explains that state law requires him to impose the maximum sentense in order to commit Leary for 90 days of psychiatric examination. Leary plan an appeal, which his lawyer says will be based on freedom of religion, freedom to raise one's own family as one sees fit, and freedom to pursue scientific truth.

Named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Ethel Merman has "the proudest and happiest day of my life." Master Chalmers begins a charmingly scholastic discussion about the meaning of "substantial" by writing that it "obviously must remain a relative term until the Dean has at least some idea of how many letters he will receive." Dean Monro replies that he will neither count letters nor define the word, and hints that Harvard may want to eliminate all student choice in the assignment process, anyway.

Two youths arrested for October's Weeks Bridge mugging draw four-to-six-year prison terms. Ralph Cahaly is robbed at gunpoint. Four men yell "You fugitive from a barber shop!" and beat up a Winthrop House sophomore. Twenty-five undergraduates march in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade and only one is punched in the mouth.

Charles W. Dunn, professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, is named Master of Quincy House. Dunster's Master Pappenheimer will take a year's leave. The Medical School faculty begins reevaluating its curriculum to see if students can be given more electives. Walter Heller gives the Godkin Lectures.

The CRIMSON starts a daily Boston newspaper and publishes it for five days. The Ed School buys land for its much-hearalded library. Adam Yarmoltnsky is appointed to the Faculty of Law and Daniel Moynihan is made head of the Joint Center for Urban Studies. Thirty Negroes from Southern colleges will attend a special summer-school program to prepare for graduate school.

It is revealed that the State Department asked embassies to pass on "pertinent information" about H. Stuart Hughes's activities during a trip he made to Europe. Harvard and M.I.T. establish a $1 million nonprofit corporation to promote planning and urban development in Cambridge. A man in Hayes Bickford's urges people to decorate the City with clothespins. The Lampoon names Natalie Wood the worst actress of this year, next year and the year after that.

April

Miss Wood's agent calls the Lampoon and good-naturedly demands that she be given the award in person. Describing Miss Wood as typifying "the worst in Hollywood glamor and non-acting," the Lampoon good-naturedly agrees. Miss Wood, after visiting the CRIMSON, good-naturedly thanks all the people who by helping her career made the award possible.

Cambridge announces that it will begin handing out $1 tickets for jaywalking. The Office of Economic Opportunity gives Harvard $12,000 more than it requested for its high-school aid program. Radcliffe gets a $17,000 grant which will allow it to accept more girls from low-income families.

Henry A. Kissinger briefs Senatorial hopeful Edward Brooke on Vietnam. The four Harvard students arrested at the Boston Army Base are fined $20 for loitering and acting in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace. The Kennedy Institute will organize a "debating union" next Fall, and Bernard Malamud will teach a freshman seminar.

The Faculty votes to make the Gen Ed program easier to understand by renaming lower-level requirements "basic requirements" and upper-level requirements "total program requirements." The governor of an Argentinian province illegally seizes seven boxes of Harvard fossils. Timothy Leary is arrested in Millbrook, N.Y., for allegedly possessing narcotics, pleads innocent and is released on $5000 bail, announces that he is going to stop using LSD because of possible side-effects, and asks Harvard for two months' back salary.

The Radcliffe Government Association and Phillips Brooks House begin a service program that will allow participants to enter VISTA or the Peace Corps without going through training. PBH's Social Service Committee, established in 1894, may be abolished; volunteers would work more closely with the staffs of settlement houses. The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee recommends that all students be allowed to take a fifth course in which they would be graded either "passed" or "failed." The Radcliffe Social Rules Committee recommends that some sign-out rules be liberalized and some be made stricter.

The HRPC audits the Government department. The University establishes a Ph. D. program in decision-making, but it requires proficiency in advanced calculus. The Freshman Jubilee Committee falls to convince Radcliffe that it should perm a "lay-in" to be held in Radcliffe Yard.

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority hints that it might extend the Harvard Square subway line under Radcliffe Yard, which does not please the Administration, either. One thousand three hundred forty five out of 6605 applicants are admitted to Harvard's Class of '70 and 348 out of 2075 to Radcliffe's. Seventeen asks "What Are Harvard Freshmen Like?" and concludes that they "are neally no different from the boy next door." A Radcliffe junior, tired of dorm life, runs a tongue-in-cheek ad for a one-year marriage marriage and receives 150 proposals.

May

Delmar Leighton, 69, who served Harvard between 1922 and 1963 as Master of Dudley House and Dean of Freshmen, Students, and the College, and Edward Everett Cauthorne, 103, the College's oldest alumnus, die in St. Andrews, Canada, and New York City. Perry Miller wins the Pulitzer Prize for history and Arthur M. Schlessinger Jr. the prize for biography. The Securities and Exchange Commission brings stock fraud charges against Thomas S. Lamont, a Fellow of the College.

The Harvard Undergraduate Council suggests that students write Masters confidential reports on resident tutors; neither Masters nor tutors think very much of the idea. The Radcliffe Government Association finally begins thinking of abolishing signouts, but when Mrs. Bunting calls is back it settles for a plan whereby girls can go any where they want without telling anybody where they're going as long as they're back by 8:15 the following morning.

Calling the Massachusetts Loyalty Oath "unnecessary and undesirable," the Faculty of the Ed School begins studying ways of having it re-pealed. Dustin Burke resigns as director of student employment to have more time for studying the Harvard Agencies' growth potential. The HSA announces a $50,000 fund drive. PBH announces a $1 million fund drive to establish an endowment. Washington gives $100,000 to the Ivy League and Seven Sisters school for high school recruitment.

The Harvard Dramatic Club will sponsor ten mainstage productions in 1966-67, instead of eight as it did this year, and undergraduates may get independent study credit for directing them. A Friday the 13th production of the current Loeb show ends when part of the set is raised too high, smashes into another part, and shows signs of falling back 50 feet onto the stage.

The American Association of University Professors reports that Harvard Faculty members have the highest average salary in the country (more than $17,500 a year), but the American Council on Education decides that the University of California at Berkeley is a better school. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, agrees to set up a committee for studying tutor's proposed changes but neglects to say when or who will be on it. The Med School lightens its first-year students work load. Summer school applications are up 300 per cent. Freshmen are assigned to Houses, but almost all of them strike out on "substantial." A few turn their room lights off and on in unison and then rush outside making animal noises, but fail to capture the popular imagination. One day later 1000 students gather in the Square and shout "Jaywalk! Jaywalk!" They then repeatedly cross Mass on the "Walk" signal.