Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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group and a committee was appointed to examine election procedures for possible Haws. These af- fairs are always very instructiveewho knows what the other, stodgier groups would do if they didnlt have the HYRC to show them the latest techniques. Probably the most hearterending news of the spring was that the biddies were on the way out and that llstudent portersll tsomeone will have to think of a better namel would soon be replacing them. There had been talk of the change in the fall but no one really believed it would happene biddies have been so long at Harvard that it was hard to imagine the place without them. Who would one talk with in the mornings? Who could be counted on to read onels mail with such devoted regularity? Certainly not student porters who wouldtonly make one,s bed once a week. Once more the human element was to be sacrificed to the relentless march of eHiciency. Of course no biddies were actually to be firedestudent porters would simply step into the gaps created by the annual turnover. And of course the project had its merits-it would provide a large pool of solid jobs which could be guaranteed to scholarship students for four years. But still, more was being lost than just the biddy; it was a whole way of Harvard life that was passing with her. World War II had eliminated the waitress at Harvard, just as World Mobilization I is going to eliminate the biddy. In place of the waitress had

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What some guys wouldnht do to get to Wellesley . . . usual, too. WHRB, which had celebrated its tenth birthday in December, served up another of its mighty musical orgies, working its way method- ically through a record collection from Bach t0 the lesser hillbillies. The Young Republican Club, long dormant, found itself in a new scandal hwhich was not unusuaU during Reading Period Which was a new time for HYRC scandalsL With elec- tions coming up, a member of the clique in power lured a leading member of the opposition into his chambers for a chat and recorded his conver- sation, which was said to be politically unsavory, on a wire recorder concealed under a pile of dirty laundry. Eventually, after a stormy meeting three members of the opposition were expelled from the

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Ivy Films opening in Boston. Seniors closing Cambridgee House courtyard. come the Nnvy-type, deep-dish, sectioned plastic tray. Early spring saw another step on the road of progress: the sand-colored, shallow Circular tray. Its advantages were not to be perceived; its disadvantages were legion, the main one being that foods in the aseparateli compartments tended to run together. But the institutional eater is a broken-spirited man. In a few years, no doubt, the tray which keeps courses apart will seem as remote as the waitress seems today. The spring term was packed with interesting events ranging from arson at Claverly lfor the low'browl t0 the first shows of the newly-formed Poetls Theater Her the high hrowl. The Young Progressives had a tiff with the Dean about hand- ing in membership lists tone of the first clashes over ccThe Rules Relating To . . f, Leverett House reclaimed Core Hall from ltimperialistic Win- throp. The University announced that the new General Education Building, which will be built as soon as possible, will he named after the late Allston Burr. This stirred speculation that the Corporation had reversed its highly controversial decision of last spring to build a new Varsity Club with Burrls unrestricted gift.