The answer offered most of the time was that conservatives at Harvard were becoming more voluble and more organized not more numerous. Groups like the Young Americans for Freedom made themselves heard more often--either as a reaction against the increasingly active liberals or as youthful discontent with parental politics. Conservatives over the winter finally entered the dialogue at the University, realizing their faults and presenting formidable arguments against the liberals. But it would be inaccurate to say that conservatives increased at all in Cambridge.

The traditional Young Republican Club and Young Democratic Club yielded to growing splinter political clubs, remnants of the "single issue" cubs of the previous year. This increased involvement with public affairs brought one interesting problem to the students of Harvard College.

Their Student Council President, Howard J. Phillips, was making speeches throughout the East as an arch conservative. the average person, according to an anti-Phillips faction, was thinking of Harvard undergraduates as conservative because Phillips' name and title had been attached to widely distributed conservative pronouncements. The office of Student Council President is apolitical, they said, and its incumbent is elected not by the student body but by the Council (which is furthermore not a representative body). It was not his fault, answered Phillips, if his statements were associated with his title and misinterpreted.

Some Council members tried impeachment or censure, others tried a rule prohibiting office holders in a political club (like Phillips) from holding office in the Council. Phillips escaped with a mild censure, but the power, or indeed the existence, of his Council was endangered at the close of the academic year.

Dunster House voted in a referendum to withdraw its Council representative to "dramatize the inadequacy of the present Council" and sent its House Committee Chairman to clean up the mess. Phillips and Dunster House's William E. Bailey agreed to work together for a new, and supposedly better, Council.

Political involvement was perhaps best noticed in another even of the year-typified by a handful of students who left yesterday for Tanganyka and a summer of teaching and working. The Peace Corps and Harvard's related programs occupied much student interest during 1961-62. Undergraduates immediately supported candidate Kennedy's bid for a Peace Corps and then started their own projects here. Project Tanganyka, one of the more successful, gathered together those students who expressed more than a preliminary willingness "to be interested in a Peace Corps."

The Harvard Crimson, which tells itself that it reflects student interests, was worried last year about the general academic trend of the College. "The College does not provide alternatives to academic success except in extracurricular terms," said a typical editorial. Was Harvard raising only future teachers? Was it offering a valid picture of business or professional life, asked the Crimeds.

Also, the Crimson continued its fight for "tutorial-for-all" (for non-Honors as well as Honors students), which came in January 1961: but still the paper was not satisfied with the new arrangement. Other editorials protested the timing of the Faculty decision prohibiting the varsity hockey team from entering the NCAA tournament, attacked the House Un-American Activities Committee, criticized Harvard's stand on expanding the size of the College ("policy by osmosis") and questioned the uses and abuses of the Loeb Drama Center.

Civic affairs and the University's handling of town-gown relations also bothered the Crimson. Particularly lively last winter was the "stills" controversy. An ambitious Cambridge developer proposed a 15-story office building on stilts on the edge of Cambridge common across from Littauer Center. The University privately opposed the plan, along with the historic-minded or traffic-wearied citizens in the community. The State Senate at first approved the special sale of public land for the building, but Governor John a. Volpe Vetoed the move.

Another near-explosive issue was President Pusey's refusal of permission for Pete Seeger, Kennedy's classmate, to present his folk songs at Harvard after his indictment for contempt of Congress (before the HUAC). Faculty reaction was generally unfavorable. Pusey relented, explained that he had expected a political rally, and ruled that Seeger could visit the University if he agreed to sing only. The University does not want to get involved in cases still pending in court, said the President.

Radcliffe, constitutionally separate from but in fact intimately part of the University, made big news in 1960-61. The first year of President Mary I. Bunting marked the creation on an Institute for advanced study for women who wish to recharge their intellectual batteries in addition to minding the kids. Response to this unique chance for womens was impressive.