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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38—prolific historian, noted Harvard professor, and a prominent “fighting liberal” throughout the 1950s and 60s, suffered a fatal heart attack during dinner with his family on February...
...still struggling to figure out how exactly is it I’m supposed to feel about Harvard. My parents grew up during a time and in a place with a quite different value system and political circumstance from ours—the turmoil of China in the 1950s to 1970s, during which anything around you could change at any time and any provision could be taken from you at any moment...
It’s little wonder, then, that Harvard students from Holmes’s time through the 1950s looked to the women at Radcliffe College to satisfy their romantic urges...
...1950s, faced with a rapidly growing demand for higher education, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 decided to increase the number of undergraduate Houses from seven to 10. This would make up part of the a broader expansion that would include 33 new buildings over the next decade...
Changes on campus thwarted Kennedy’s trip down memory lane, but for some Cambridge residents, building projects represented a far greater inconvenience. Harvard’s expansion in the late 1950s would force many from their homes, in a pattern not altogether different from today’s planned campus expansion into Allston...