Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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The dirt and disorder ofa rain soaked Harvard Square suffers in contrast to Memorial Chapel-a few hundred yards and a few hundred years away. DECEMBER, 1948 Local business group maps plan to streamline Har- vard Square. Cam installed as first woman professor. College poll shows slight majority of undergraduates against blanket draft exemption for students. Swim- mers trim M.I.T. 59-16, lose one race. JANUARY, 1949 Lamont Library makes debut, sets new mark in functional design. 7,200 swarm in for first-day look. Academic probation abolished for juniors and seniors. Class of '49 names William J. Richard, Jr., First Mar- shal, Dan Ray and Dwight Nishimura Second and Third. Sextet wallops Dartmouth 8 to 5 in big upset at Hanover. Boyleston Professor Theodore Spencer dies of heart attack. WI-IRV holds longest musical orgy -207 hours of continuous broadcasting.

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' x 4- X x nfs The much-disporciged Mem Holl looks over all the University. At lower right: 'Poon president ond winner ot the much- publicized beauty contest. coach. Varsity beaten by Dartmouth before 45,000. Bounce back to defeat Holy Cross 20 to 13. NOVEMBER, 1948 Straw vote puts Dewey well ahead in University. Truman wins. Language pro abolished by faculty de- cision. Tigers chill Crimson 7 to 47. Brown expels pre-game Yard daubers. Varsity teamwork spills powerful, favored Bruins, 30 to 19. Yale game multi- tude clogs hotels, restaurants and theatres as Stadium is sold out. Bulldogs beaten 20 to 7. Howard Houston chosen to head '49-'50 varsity. 'lx ,- ,. Y: Uv-M x

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FEBRUARY, 1949 Stevens succeeds Boring as Director of Psychology Lab, Whipple appointed head of Astronomy Depart- ment. Enrollment wilts to post-war low as 5,100 file through Mem Hall. University announces plan to build new housing development at site of botanical gardens. Weeks quits, Student Council picks Bob Fischelis as new president. Dick Button retains world skating championship. Spring rioting by mob marks Lampoon's Secession from the civilized world. MARCH, 1949 Faculty announces abolishment of History 1. NSA's Purchase Cards go on sale in College. Buck calls for S75 jump in tuition for following year. Corporation gives memorial plaque final OK. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Sherwood admits he once Hunked English A during Whithrop House talk. Crimson debaters out- talk Cambridge team for first time in three years, speaking against Was the American Revolution a Mistake? APRIL, 1949 John Munro picked as assistant to Provost Buck. Undergraduate takes Social Relations 114 hour exam as a prank, gets C plus although he had attended none of the lectures, done none of the reading, is a con- centrator in math. Varsity crew sweeps river over Princeton, Rutgers and M.l.T. in season opener. Harold J. Laski, speaking in the Law School Forum series, urges American socialistic labor party. Varsity crew trims M.l.T., B.U. in second meet. These things will not soon be forgotten by the members of the Class: The Emergency Egress in Sever, the Claverly biII- board, the Crimson Key, the World War I plaque, and, of course, the Owl. i-----wtf