"Men and women were exploring relationships andexploring one another in a very healthy manner,"he says, "but people weren't meeting one another,shaking hands and leaping into bed."
Henry S.G. Hardy '73 agrees that the sexualrevolution created more of a ripple than a wavewithin Harvard.
"When I got there, there were no rules at all,and there was [promiscuity]," he says, "butwhatever sexual revolution there was had happenedby the time I got there. There wasn't any bigchange in sexual behavior on campus during thetime I was there."
Final clubs were not a big part of social life.
"The final clubs left the rest of the worldalone," Crane says.
"People really sort of tried to ignore them,"Moreno agrees.
However, she says, "even the people that werein the most conservative of the clubs were drawninto radical events...they were getting theirroots shaken a little bit."
Schneider, who was a member of the Delphic,says that final clubs were "largely ignored."
"When the issue was raised by people, peoplewere generally not terribly friendly in theircomments," he says. "They were viewed as beingconservative."
The Class of 1973
Diversity was the watchword in 1973 almost asmuch as it is now.
"We were probably as broad a spectrum as youcould imagine," Crane says.
Schneider agrees, saying there was nooverriding group within the class. "I had friendsranging from Groton and St. Paul's to people frompublic high schools in the middle of nowhere," hesays.
And whether their memories are of protests inthe Yard or of co-ed bathrooms, class members saytheir Harvard experience was definitely unique.With the outside world changing, members of theclass of '73 were changing as well.
"The class reflected the turbulence of thetimes," Pazstor says.
Ritchie says what she remembers most about thetime was its hopefulness.
"We were convinced that we could save theworld," she says.