Holiday Says College Is 'No Longer Just for Bostonians'

Harvard "no longer is an ivory tower for proper Bostonians" says Cleveland Amory '39 in the February issue of Holiday Magazine which attempts to tell the outside world about the University.

Amory, a former CRIMSON president, spends eleven pages of text and pictures describing life and atmosphere about the Square. He reaches the conclusion that local buildings which can be safely overlooked are "Memorial Hall, a Victorian-Gothic monstrosity built to commemorate Civil War dead, and the Lampoon Building, built for no reason at all."

The traditional picture of Harvard as "a small land located in the Hub of the Universe and inhabited by a quaint group of junior George Apleys," is deflated by Amory.

He points out that the University, where there are 12,000 students and 2,200 faculty members, has "the world's most impressive educational plant" and a world-wide representation among its student body.

Explains Women in Yard

"Female emancipation" is Amory's term for the joint education policy of the College and Radcliffe, and the addition to University faculties of women instructors. Amory explains that Harvard authorities frown on the word "coeducation."

But the greatest emancipation, Amory feels, is the expansion of Harvard from a strictly regional college--with the usual apocryphal proper Bostonian anecdotes--to a world wide institution.