Word: carded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 the Dow Chemical...
...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...
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...
...living in the big outside world, the student decides that either pumping books is preferable to pumping gas, in which case he returns, or else it isn't, in which case he stays away. For a long time this alternative remained Harvard's ultimate therapeutic trump card, a sign of flexibility the school pointed to with great pride. Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel William G. Perry often refers to himself as the "head of Harvard's drop-out program...
...students have informally designated March 10-16 as "Harass Your Draft Board Week." Students are asked to write one certified letter a day to their local boards, telling them how they've been feeling or what they've been up to: anything that falls into the categories on the card...