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.