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But, according to alumni from the era, in an age when administration-enforced parietal hours restricted visits from Radcliffe girls and when jackets and ties were still required at every meal, students were not concerned about College housing policy.
“We thought we had landed in paradise,” he said of arriving the Square . “There were four bookstores, five bookstores, nice haberdasheries, poets’ theatres, and plays and concerts galore. We were just not disposed to question the way things were...
“You have no idea how different the ’50s were from the ’60s,” he said.
“We were content, you know? We’d been through the war, the economy had rebounded,” Smith said, adding that the only discussion he recalls among fellow undergraduates over the proposed housing changes had to do with the architecture of the new buildings...
Unlike future students—who have gone so far as to storm University Hall in two later clashes over the administration’s policies—several other members of the class of 1960 all said that they were oblivious or indifferent to the University’s...