Word: bursar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police linking arms in the basement of Mallinckrodt practicing a flying wedge, should they be called on. Several deans on the college administrative board sat out the furor with the Dow Chemical man, but along the way took students' names and demanded that every participating student turn in his bursar's (identification) card. Many students, unable to participate because of urgent classes--the radical of the sixties is serious--dropped by just to turn in their bursar's cards; so just who actually blocked passage is hard to know to this day. By dinner time the students relented, deciding that...
...finest sense of both of those words. After all the meetings and all the behind-the-scenes phone calls, out of such violently opposing opinions, came a bland compromise: the Administrative Board proposed, and the faculty ratified, the decision to put on a virtually meaningless probation any student whose bursar's card had been turned...
...fact, many students felt that participation in that episode was one of the most important events in their lives. One student put it graphically. He described how he had fought to get into Harvard, and that at the moment when he turned in his bursar's card he knew he was faced with the possibility of being kicked out. He felt that he had to face completely the extent of his convictions about the Vietnam war and about the morality of its destructiveness. He had, in that moment when he knew he might have sacrificed what was of such importance...
Many students, on the other hand, felt that participation in the demonstration was one of the most important events in their lives. Describing the decision of a student to turn in his bursar's card at the risk of being severed, Zinberg said, "He had, in that moment when he know he might have sacrificed what was of such importance to him, grown...
...University Hall--gray grooved blocks across the Yard. It was so much more comfortable. The Deans love you, and they welcome you, tell you where to sit (check your Bursar's card to make sure you are one of them). It was peaceful and chatty and comfortable. But even here, on our side of the Yard, no one knew quite what to do. Like the fast--if there are no demands, there is no purpose; if there is no purpose, nothing happens. So nothing happened...