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Confrontation at Quincy House, 1966.
Confrontation at Quincy House, 1966. Photograph by Julien Levy
Certain law students have received a letter of reprimand from Dean Roscoe Pound, reading in part, "You have been reported to me as one of the one hundred or more first-year men who saw fit to drop their work last Saturday by staying away from one of the most difficult courses in the School. You are now listed as prima facie an undesireable student, and from now on your work will be observed." The deliquents had gone to the Brown game.

1936 The Bulletin's "Undergraduate" column reports that one speaker at a recent student Republican rally proclaimed: "Gentlemen, I have come 400 miles to tell you that my state is going to return the Republican party by a majority of 250,000 dollars...er...I mean votes."

1941 The College Library badly needs duplicate copies of popular books (including some that are needed for course assignments) and has appealed to alumni for help. The wait, for example, for William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary is reported to be nearly four months.

1951 The Administrative Board refuses to permit women to stay in the Houses until 11 p.m., even though Yale has already extended its curfew to that hour.

1956 Her appointment as professor and head of the department of maternal and child health in the Faculty of Public Health makes Martha May Eliot Harvard's third female full professor.

1961 A University-wide faculty committee is exploring what action, if any, the University should take-in light of local, state, and federal policies-to deal with possible danger from fire or fallout in the event of a nuclear attack.

Among alterations proposed for the Harvard School of Business Administration after a two-year study initiated by its dean is a change of name. The Bulletin reports "a widespread feeling" that the present name "does not imply an institution of professional stature, and that there should bea Harvard Business School."

The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration plans to offer a special program on the "Understanding of Management," designed to make wives of business executives more aware of the managerial process and give them orientation to some functions of a business organization.

1966 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, M.B.A. '39, the first honorary associate of the Kennedy Institute of Politics, is trapped briefly outside Quincy House by antiwar demonstrators seeking a public debate.

Acting for several universities, and with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Harvard has developed the $2.5 million New England Regional Primate Research Center.

1971 For the first time, the mothers and fathers of Harvard and Radcliffe students gather jointly for Freshman Parents' Weekend.

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