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Construction is underway on the Larz Anderson Bridge, which will connect Cambridge and Boston. The structure is expected to be completed before the Yale Game in the fall.
Harvard Hall has been renovated so tastefully that "those ancient upstairs rooms, known as Harvard five and six, are now perhaps the most attractive lecture rooms in the College."
H.H. Eddy, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, starts an alternative education facility called the "Emergency College" in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The goal is to bring young unemployed Ph.D.s and unemployed high-school graduates together to create an informal atmosphere conducive to learning.
At the fifth annual joint outing of the Harvard and Yale Clubs of New York City, at the Rockaway Hunting Club, Cedarhurst, Long Island, Harvard wins the baseball game 4-0, loses the golf match 427 to Yale's 409, and wins the tennis competition five matches to none.
The president of the Harvard Advocate announces that, due to a lack of finances and manpower, the upcoming issue will be the last for the duration of the war. The organization will, however, continue its "social functions."
The Harvard Corporation sets aside $250,000 from the Allston Burr bequest to begin construction of an outdoor ice rink and artificial ice plant on Soldiers' Field. The Working Friends of Harvard Hockey, a group of alumni consisting mostly of former Harvard hockey players, plans to raise the estimated additional $350,000 necessary to put a roof on the rink and equip the building.
The class of 1962 will be "larger than normal" due to "another sharp rise in the 'rate of acceptance'"--today's "yield" (see "Surging Yield"). The incoming class's yield is expected to reach 75 percent. "In view of last year's increase to 69 percent from the 61-63 percent rate of four years before that," the editors report, "the Committee on Admission made adjustments," but not enough to hold the entering class to the 1,100 members desired.
Intimations of rain threaten Commencement week events. "The College Pump" notes that "at the exact moment the representative of the Twenty-Fifth Reunion Class presented the imposing Class gift of over a million dollars to President Pusey, a dramatic lightning bolt flashed across the western sky."
President Derek C. Bok's name appears on the list of "political enemies" of the Nixon administration that has been submitted to the Senate Watergate committee by John Dean. Possible explanations include Bok's efforts to oppose the nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, and his trip to Washington to protest the invasion of Cambodia.
Exiled Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded an honorary degree on Commencement Day. That afternoon, in his speech to the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni, he warns his audience that "the Western world is losing its courage and spiritual direction."
On August 26, in conjunction with Women's Equality Day, Radcliffe celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America with a party in Cambridge.