Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of this type of work-shop is that of Donald Menzel, professor of Astronomy, who will "supervise a research project on the growth and behavior of sunspots." Members of this technical team of about eight freshmen must have "a real interest in this field and be qualified to participate effectively as a member of a research team--either as an astronomer or as a physicist, mathematician, or writer." As an added requirement members of the workshop are expected to enroll in Astronomy 1, as well as to audit courses in related fields...
...offered by Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy, in connection with Phil 1; Stephen Gilman, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, together with Hum 7; and McGeorge Bundy, professor of Government, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who will direct a group of from five to eight freshmen in study related to Gov 185. Walter J. Bate, professor of English, "will conduct a tutorial program for two or three freshmen with exceptional ability and interest in English literature," and William Alfred, assistant professor of English, plans an informal seminar in literature and writing for eight to ten interested...
...seeking out a variety of intelligence-levels. Whereas most of the tutorial-type workshops will be geared to "exceptional students," Riesman stresses that his group wants the average freshman, too. This difference has led to a further difference in recruiting methods. Riesman's staff has not sought out particular freshmen, but has sent a letter to all the members of '63, simply "inviting" their participation. Meanwhile, on behalf of all work-shops but Riesman's, the Office of Advanced Standing sent additional solicitations to about 175 students whose school record seems to indicate special competence in their particular field...
...club, and these existed often only for bacchanalian orgies. The best remembered organization of the period was the "Med. Fac.," which Quincy unsuccessfully tried to suppress in 1834. Secret meetings of the Med. Fac. were highlighted by libations from a silver chamber-pot or by hazing of unknowing freshmen; the administration railed against the breeches of discipline this body created, but did not suppress it until this century...
...finally collided head-on with the student body in the justly-famed riot of 1834, a protest that has no equal in Harvard history. It started mildly enough--a few bonfires in the Yard livened by gun-powder-stuffed logs--then a dispute between the Latin professor and the freshmen and sophomores, and the inevitable Faculty crackdown. The College bell started to ring mysteriously during the night, and more broken windows appeared every...