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...Most of the campus uprisings that happened in the late '60s happened with some reference to what happened at Columbia," says Alan Brinkley, a former Harvard faculty member who is now a professor of history at Columbia. "The idea of occupying an administration building at Harvard certainly owed a lot to Columbia...
...Says Brinkley: "Both Harvard and Columbia were as much about finding ways to allow privileged students at universities to fulfill themselves as they were to fight particular social injustices...
...reference to good old Alan Brinkley (flourit 1987) is a dead giveaway. Could any Harvard undergraduate pick him out of a police lineup? Doubt it. I confidently expect still to be hearing about old Alan as one of History's missed opportunities when I retire in 2025. Dear old fellow! Good old Crimson! So jolly dependable...
Popular lecturer Alan Brinkley, who left Harvard after the department denied his tenure in 1987, is the example many still remember...
...protests were not just against social injustice, but a fight against the obstacles to personal fulfillment," Brinkley says...