Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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and FACULTY I G, 0 EW 'Ugg . . Q . ffl X N., c tj HARVARD COLLEGE offers a liberal education of high standards for those who want it. It offers a great Faculty, great scholars, and great teachers. It offers stimulating asso- ciation with able students from diverse backgrounds. It be- lieves in freedom, in individuality and independence, not in conformity and protection from dangerous ideas and harsh facts. It does not offer security and insulation and associa- tion with a homogeneous group patterned in one mold. It offers a challenge to strength. If its challenge is accepted, it will help boys to become men-humane and tolerant and mature and tough and responsible men. Dean Wilbur J. Bender

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1-'4 dv' Harvard's 297th Commencement Procession headed by President Conant, Provost Buck, and the Corporation. The Corporation meets twice a month in Massachusetts Hall, the University's oldest surviving building C1720j. QLLWQ David Bailey, Secretary to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, frwzlvrj The Corporation, left to right, Henry L. Shattuck, Gren- The Corporation Makes University Policy Ever since President Dunster got the General Court to issue its charter in 1650, the Harvard Corporation has been the central governing board of the University. The oldest corpo- ration in the U. S. existing under its original charter, it is a self-perpetuating body of seven men: the President, Treasurer, and five Fellows. When Harvard was still a small colonial College, the Corporation found time to regulate the length of students' hair, to inventory kitchen equipment, and to persuade reluctant biddies to return to work. With the expansion of the Uni- versity, the Corporation has had to delegate many of its ad- ministrative responsibilities and to devote itself mainly to making general University policy. However it still passes on all budgets, makes all appointments on the basis of the recom- mendations of the Departments, and votes all degrees. Honorary Keeper of the Records Since the Class of '46 entered Harvard, there have been several new faces at Corporation meetings. William Marbury was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Henryjames' death in 1947. Marbury, a Law School alumnus and a resident of Baltimore, is the only Corporation member who is not a graduate of Harvard College. Paul C. Cabot succeeded William H. Claflin as Treasurer in 1948. The late A. Calvert Smith replaced Jerome D. Greene as Secretary to Corporation in 1945 when Greene retired to the post of Honorary Keeper of the Corporation Records. Upon Smith s death in 1945, David Bailey took over the Secretary's job. All of the present Fellows except Marbury live in or near Boston and four of the seven are lawyers. The University's other governing body, the Board of Overseers is now largely an honorary group elected by the alumni, although technically it has reviewing power over many acts of the Corporation. ville Clark, the late Henry james, President Conant, former Secretary Jerome D. Greene, Charles A. Coolidge, jr., Roger I. Lee, and former Treasurer William H. Claflin, jr., fright, Dr. David Little, Secretary to the University.