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Students and alumni alike mourn the passing of Gore Hall, the predecessor of Widener Library, "for no building, however ugly and inconvenient, can be the centre of academic life for 70 years without gathering a cloud of memories which veil the ugliness and make us forget the inconveniences."
Lewis M. Thornton '05 writes: "In going through an old trunk today, my wife found four old sweaters given to me by the H.A.A., on which were various insignia. She suggested that if she unravelled these she would have wool enough to make a great number of mufflers, socks, etc., for the soldiers. To me the sweaters had a great deal of sentimental value, but is not this one of the easiest sacrifices that can be made? Surely there are many graduates who can do the same."
The Granta, a weekly undergraduate magazine at Cambridge University, has added a new column entitled "Harvard Notes," because there are "so many American students at Cambridge, and...American university affairs are bound to interest students here."
A report from the Harvard Club of London on its dinner for Harvard and Yale men on the day of the Harvard-Yale game notes that special arrangements with the Commercial Cable Company permitted dinner guests to send cables supporting their teams and receive news of the game only four to six minutes after plays occurred.
Construction has begun on the South African station of the Harvard Observatory, near Mazelsport. Once it is completed, the station will have more operating telescopes than any other observatory in the world.
Members of the class of 1910 hold a dinner at the Faculty Club for classmate T.S. Eliot, Norton professor of poetry for the 1932-1933 academic year.
Assembly has begun on a new 95-inch, 700-ton cyclotron (or "atom-smasher"), soon to be housed in the University's new nuclear laboratory.
Students voice disgust when the faculty approves new rules that allow women to stay in undergraduate rooms until 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. on Saturday nights, but completely eliminate the existing afternoon visiting hours of 1 to 4 for the rest of the week. An Adams House resident complains that "the Faculty has taken three steps forward, and then 'compromised' and evened things off by taking 18 steps back."
An admissions office pamphlet gives the estimated cost of a year at the College as $1,800, including tuition, room, board, fees, and personal expenses.
The Schools of Law and Public Health embark on research projects, funded by the Atomic Industrial Forum Inc. and the Rockefeller Foundation, respectively, to work toward solutions for "problems of the atomic age."
President Nathan M. Pusey speculates that undergraduate tuition will be $4,000 by 1988. [It hit $12,015.]
A letter calling for de-escalation of the war in Vietnam, with 4,000 signatories representing 54 percent of the faculty and 51 percent of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, has been presented to President Lyndon Johnson. University Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, and one of the project organizers, calls it "a remarkable fact that 54 percent of the Harvard faculty signed anything."
Harvard has marketed a bond issue of $12.5 million, its first ever, following the establishment of a Massachusetts agency that will help hospitals and educational institutions finance construction projects. The issue will fund two garages, the Science Center's chilled-water plant, and the renovation of the old Continental Hotel on Garden Street.
A study of 17,000 alumni who entered the College between 1916 and 1950 "suggests that hard, regular exercise does reduce heart-attack risk among men in relatively sedentary occupations--and does so even in the presence of risk factors such as smoking, obesity, hypertension, age, and family history of heart disease."
A short profile reports on Robert Ellis Smith '62, who since 1974 has been publishing a monthly entitled Privacy Journal, which discusses issues of privacy in the age of advanced computer and telecommunications technology.
