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April 18--Nearly 150 anti-war demonstrators ransack the "military-linked" Center for International Affairs (CFIA), causing some $20-25,000 in damage during the evening's destruction. Meanwhile, campuses across the nation mobilize as student groups, newspapers, and the National Student Association call for a nationwide strike opposing the escalation of the war in indochina...
...Dean McGeorge Bundy proposed in 1958 that the building be sold. Concerned about Eliot's original pledge to Schiff, a Faculty committee strongly recommended instead that the upper floors be rented out for no more than five years to raise funds for the museum. The Center for International Affairs (CfIA) moved in, and workmen literally tossed the museum's mahogany display cases out the window...
...CfIA ended up staying for 21 years, relegating the museum to the building's basement. But in the meantime--despite a bomb blast anti-war demonstrators staged in 1970 to protest the presence of then-Professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 in the building--things were finally stirring in the department. Top scholars were brought back to Cambridge, partly as a result of pressure from the stubborn few who stayed through the lean years and partly to keep up in the academic rat race...
Gavin estimates that he has generated more than $1.7 million in corporate and government grants and private gifts. He waged his biggest battle in 1980, when the administration presented him with a bill for $19,000 worth of heating and maintenance costs. With the CfIA was gone. Harvard argued, Gavin would have to pick...
...Suddenly," Cross explains, "the department was big enough to fill the building." And so for all intents and purposes the museum was reborn: The department had ousted the CfIA from the upstairs office space by sheer strength of numbers. Agreeing for the most part with Cross's interpretation. O'Brien says, "The museum just expanded into its space...