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Students dining in Memorial Hall need no longer carry spare change in their pockets: the system of tipping the waiters has been abolished.
The Bulletin notes, without comment, a report in the Crimson that the Ku Klux Klan has an organization at Harvard, and that the first step toward a Harvard branch was taken two years earlier.
Radcliffe has polled its married alumnae to determine what qualities are required in a mate. Empirical evidence, the Bulletin notes, suggests "that propinquity, not absence, makes the heart grow fonder." Fifty-three percent of the husbands hail from Harvard; MIT is a distant second with 5 percent; and a scant 2 percent from Yale prove to be husband material. "Clearly," the editors add, "undergraduate charm decreases with the square of the distance."
The rising bell no longer tolls for those living in or near Harvard Yard: the University's new president, James Bryant Conant '14, Ph.D. '16, has discontinued the 7 a.m. practice. Since the College's earliest days, the chimes had been heard by Yard residents at hours as advanced as 5 a.m.
For the duration, the Bulletin adopts its own "fighting format." Both the type size and the weight of the paper stock are reduced. Alumni are asked to curtail their letters to the editor, because "there can now be no such gallant abandon" as in the extravagant days preceding the war effort.
Tuition at the College has risen to $525 per annum, a jump of more than 130 percent. The increase continues a trend among Ivy League institutions and marks the first fee change in nearly 20 years.
Twenty-nine students have become residents at Harvard's first "do-it-yourself" house. Located at 3 Sacramento Street, the new coöperative provides a home for "forced commuters and students willing to work for their keep" (see photograph above). The Bulletin estimates that by living in community quarters, each co-op member will save about $400. "Happily, they find themselves a geographical, economic, and cultural cross-section of the College."
The College admissions office sent out 7 percent fewer admission certificates in the spring than in the previous year, the editors note, and "it appears that their caution was well advised." The acceptance rate, or yield, for the incoming freshman class has hit 83 percent.
Construction has begun on the University's million-dollar animal research center, "which promises to be the most modern facility in the world for the breeding of animals to aid in biomedical research." The Medical School's director for animal research, referring to some recent outcry against animal research in national magazines, states that "all experiments of this kind are done for the sole purpose of benefiting the human race, as well as the animals themselves."
Despite years of pressure from the Boston city fathers, President Nathan Marsh Pusey '28, Ph.D. '37, refuses the Boston Patriots access to Harvard's stadium. His decision prompts an editorial cartoon in the Globe depicting the president as a maddened "Sacred Cow."
The University Barbershop on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Plympton Street has closed its doors after more than 80 years of service. Co-owner Allen Moloney, son of the shop's founder, laments that most Harvardians are shunning the shears in favor of more substantial decoration for the gray matter below.
Although Rhodes Scholarships are restricted to men, and parliamentary action would be necessary to open the competition to women, the Harvard Fellowship Committee endorses three Radcliffe applicants for the awards.
For the first time in nine years, students elect representatives to a College-wide undergraduate assembly. The class of '82 forms two political parties. The Hedonist Party rallies around a platform of "constant physical contact between genders, oral surgery for Jimmy Carter, total use of beer, wine, thai sticks, ganja cigarettes, quaaludes, THC, and LSD as the bill of rights." The Mongol Party campaigns for the ideals of "rape, pillage, plunder, and rape." The dean of freshmen calls the Mongol agenda "moderate and sensible."
The four-lane track inside the Stadium is to be superseded by a $1-million track and field area outside its closed end. The surface of the new eight-lane, 400-meter track is designed to be firm but compliant, reducing injuries and fatigue and making it the finest and fastest at any school in the world.