The Brattle Theatre (in its second year) entertained with Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Shadow and Substance, The Sea Gulls, King Lear and others.
March
Harvard chose Lloyd Johnson as the new football coach.
Petition was circulated through the Harvard community asking people to remove the "stool pigeon" clause that said Navy ROTC students had to report other students "associating or acting with or attending informal or social functions of an attached list of 'subversive' organizations." The petition was sponsored by The Crimson, the Young Republicans, the American Veterans Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, the Teachers Union and was sent to the administration. Harvard loyalty oath declared invalid--wording was wrong.
May
Every House except Kirkland has its own television.
"The Crimson worried about its Radcliffe correspondents, the administration about Communist infiltration and the Student Council about the generally unformed and uncodified state of rules for extracurricular activities."
Administration declares Radcliffe has to stay out of Harvard's extracurricular life.
Real world: 1946:
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