"It was kind of fun for one night, but this is being carried too far," he added.

Dean Watson, meanwhile, was seen helping Cambridge police shove one student into a waiting paddy wagon. The crowd, spilling out onto Mass Ave, was temporarily quieted when two National Guard trucks towing howitzers drove past. Cambridge police used eight tear gas bombs to dispell the remaining rioters.

The diploma controversy, however, did not end with the dispersion of the rioters. Bodgett threatened at the time to hand out 10,000 fake English diplomas on street corners, and Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci warned, "I, being of Latin ancestory, will carry this fight to Dr. Pusey."

A few days later, Vellucci pushed a resolution through the city council asking Harvard to reconsider the diploma decision. In Washington, meanwhile, McGeorge Bundy, who was dean of the Faculty at the time the decision to change the diplomas was originally made, denied that he had convinced President Kennedy--then a member of the Board of Overseers--to support the change. The Overseers voted two-to-one in favor of the new diplomas after Kennedy's support became known. Only a protest by the Administrative Board saved the cum laude notations from being set in the English "with honors."

Ralph J. Bunche '28, United Nations undersecretary for special political affairs, told the Overseers that U.N. diplomats informally discussed the controversy. Bunche reportedly told the Overseers that most UN members favored the new diplomas.

"The controversy is very insignificant in everyone's minds, but its a good issue to group around for class identity," Blodgett said last week.

Blodgett said the Class of '61 letterhead bears the Harvard seal with the motto "Truth" inscribed on the three books where "Veritas" is traditionally set. His own diploma, he believes, is in English, but, he notes, "its been a very long time since I've looked at it."