Two black students are halted at the entrance of the Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked by the owner to present "membership cards." Twenty-one days of student picketing and protest later, the owner signs a 126-word statement asserting that "race, creed of color" will not keep patrons out of the club.
March 11, 1947
After a successful six-month experiment, the Faculty announces plans for the rapid expansion of the General Education Program--the precursor to the Core Curriculum--including the addition of eight new courses.
March 26, 1947
"Speak for Yourself," a musical-comedy set in a New England Puritan settlement, is the first Hasty Pudding show to open in five years. "Both the law of averages and traditional Harvard theatrical on Holyoke Street," The Crimson writes.
April 15, 1947
The Faculty votes to consider the state of national emergency, in effect since April 1941, terminated. All emergency regulations adopted in the interim are dropped. Full courses are reinstituted and February examinations again become mid-years.
April 24, 1947
The College announces that veterans and non-veterans fared equally well scholastically in the fall semester, with 30 precent of veterans and 28.5 percent of non-veterans achieving a Dean;s List average.
May 8, 1947
In a Student Council poll, students overwhelmingly support a "utilitarian" memorial to Harvard's World or statue. Eventually plaques are erected along the south wall of Memorial Church listing the names of the deceased.
May 17, 1947
The University's endowment reaches $162,000,000, a University official tells an Associated Harvard Clubs convention in Milwaukee.
May 23, 1947
Final plans are released for Lamont Library, where "functional design will be the keynote." Construction of the library, which will be closed to Radcliffe students, is set to begin in June.
June 5, 1947
Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Veterans Affairs Administrator Omar N. Bradley and atomic researcher J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 are among 12 awarded honorary degrees, as 769 seniors--who entered Harvard in three stages--march in a tradition-laden 296th Commencement ceremony.