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Stanley H. Hoffmann, head tutor of the Government Department, said that the Department has "informally changed" the structure of tutorial groups in the past year, organizing a number of mixed groups in various Houses. The change was made "because Radcliffe girls seemed to feel discriminated against, and also because the mixed groups seemed to work better," he said...
Section men in Government 1 tend to prefer sections containing both Harvard and Radcliffe students rather than homogeneous groups, Hoffmann noted...
...lecture, entitled "France's Fifth Republic," Hoffmann, a Frenchman himself, supported the policies of Premier Charles De Gaulle concerning French policy toward Algeria. Hoffmann favored a postponement of a political solution while pushing ahead with a program of "economic and social recognition for the honor of mankind" in the area...
During a question period that followed, an unidentified Algerian student spoke out against the pro-French views of Hoffmann. This student broadened the issue by demanding that France get out of all her former colonies and "leave them alone...
...Hoffmann also pointed out that the weak Fourth Republic, doomed since 1954, will be replaced by the Fifth Republic, under which the President, almost certain to be Premier De Gaulle, will be given the power to act as arbitrator among the various organs of government and as a unifying force in the crumbling French empire...