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...Memorial Church group formed after the bust as moderate students tried to find a compromise between radicals and the administration. Kenneth M. Glazier spoke up at the first chaotic meeting and suddenly became a leader of the moderate group...
...event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the bust in 1989, speaker Dale E. Fink '71-'72 summed up as well as could be hoped the confused and powerful set of feelings that 1969 still conjures up in those who were at Harvard then...
...student takeover began April 9, 1969 and the bust took place early in the morning of April 10. But demonstrations and counter-demonstrations spurred by the takeover filled the Square before the bust and for several days afterward...
...bust, as it would come to be known, wouldonly take a few minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...
...bust turned campus opinion upside down,aligning nearly everyone against the Harvardadministration. At a meeting in Memorial Churchthe afternoon of the takeover, students voted togo on strike against the University, refusing toattend classes...