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With peeling paint and 1950s-style architecture, the buildings the buildings--with their entryways named for former Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan--stick out among the more traditional homes of the tony Cambridge neighborhood...
...money for the original Jordan buildings was given to Radcliffe in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a series of gifts by Susan M. Hilles--the same donor who gave the funds for Hilles Library. Hilles gave several donations of $100,000 to Radcliffe "for cooperative housing" over the course of a few years, until the College had enough money to start construction...
...described not only seeing the impact of poverty in what was becoming India and Bangladesh in the 1940s and 1950s but also "the divisiveness...of communitarian politics...
...1950s, Schwartz was the first to publish a major study--his first book, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao--that treated Chinese communism as an ideology substantively different from Soviet communism...
...House system--in which students in the College spend all but their first year in one of 12 small residential clusters--was at its peak during the 1950s and 1960s. It was then that House masters loomed large in undergraduate life, then that social activity on campus began with House sports. It was then that a House assignment carried its most meaning.In the decades that followed, Harvard undergraduates grappled with issues that defied the confines of House life--the Vietnam War principally, and the increasing diversity of student interests which left the Houses less equipped to bring students together...