Two colleges, quiet times
They were in college during the presidential election of John F. Kennedy, a man they considered one of their own. The Metropolitan Transit Authority car barns stood where a school in his name would be built. The future John F. Kennedy Street still went by the name Boylston. It was a time when the Loeb Drama Center was new, a year when their star quarterback went down with a knee injury and they lost The Game by the inglorious score of 39 to 6. Many people still smoked: indoors, outdoors, wherever, and faculty members thought nothing of holding cigarettes or pipes when sitting for photos. Radcliffe was still a college. Women and men attended class together but lived largely separate lives. There were few ladies’ rooms in the Yard, and women were barred from Lamont Library. For the men, House life was a bit crowded, and the major protest concerned not civil...