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.