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   May 1984: Penguins on the grass alas, courtesy of the Office for the Arts. Some vanished before volunteer penguin-watchers arrived. JOE WRINN |
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has set French and German on a par with Latin by accepting an advanced entrance examination in either modern language toward College admission.
The editors note that the residential Houses do not yet have distinguishing academic or social characteristics, yet all but Kirkland have acquired new names among, and for, their undergraduates: "Gold Coasters" (Adams); "Pioneers" (Dunster); "Elephants" (Eliot); "Rabbits" (Leverett); "Bell Boys" (Lowell); and "the Puritans" (Winthrop).
According to the dean of engineering: "When Mr. Howard Aiken, Instructor in Physics and Communication Engineering, invented and proposed to construct an elaborate machine that will compute automatically numerical tables of complicated but useful mathematical functions," it was natural that representatives of the mathematics, physics, and astronomy departments and the schools of business administration and engineering should meet with a representative of "an interested and competent industry" and discuss the possibilities; "there is now a definite prospect that the machine will be built."
An unofficial victory garden of radishes has sprouted amid the new grass in the area immediately in front of John Harvard's statue.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences agrees to a three-year trial run for a junior-year-abroad program for concentrators in Romance and Germanic languages and literatures.
Half a year after defending Harvard against attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy, President Nathan Pusey draws more than 500 people to the National Press Club's luncheon in his honor; his speech on "Freedom, Loyalty, and the American University" and his willingness to answer all questions from the floor "thoroughly and frankly" earn him a "remarkable ovation."
According to its president, Edward McGuire '60, the newly formed Students for Kennedy club coalesced because prospective members "were affronted by the fact that Rockefeller,...a Dartmouth man, has a club here, while Harvard man Kennedy has not."
A $5-million grant from IBM has launched Harvard on an interdisciplinary 10-year program of studies of the social impact of technological change and automation.
Eighteen students have signed up to concentrate in the newly created field of Afro-American studies.
Harvard and Radcliffe anticipate an incoming freshman class of 1,100 men (70 fewer than in 1973) and 475 women (unchanged)--a male to female ratio of just under 3:1. The magazine's editors speculate that Harvard may try a four-year transition to a 2:1 ratio by adding 125 women a year and increasing total undergraduate enrollment to 6,800.
Prompted by the success of National Lampoon's Animal House, Universal Pictures offers $500 to sponsor a toga party in South House, but dean of students Archie Epps vetoes the proposal.
A $450 grant from the Office for the Arts lets seniors Alexander Bass and Arthur Kroeber bring their Yin-Yang/ Penguin-Iceberg, top prizewinner in the Harvard-Radcliffe Architecture and Design Group's second environmental art contest, briefly to reality on Sever Quad.