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...this was only a play of light and shadow. For the real issue had never been approached. In the midst of 'honest-to-God' battle it was forgotten, while 'Viva la Revolucion' et al was the day's chant. Though the revolution might be coming, the march was supposed to have been for the children. And not much was heard of them. They floated around somewhere in the background, but only as an abstract concept, lingering in the shadow of the ultimate truth the revolution. Perhaps children are too small an issue. Certainly they pale in comparison with revolution...
...When President Hoover begged the American Legion's 1932 convention not to insist on early payment of veterans' bonuses, what chant greeted his please...
Martin Bormann, last-minute stand-in as Class Day speaker for Henry A. Kissinger '50, is met by 9000 demonstrators organized by the New American Movement. As the protesters chant, "Martin Bormann, you can't hide: you've committed genocide," Bormann slips by them unnoticed...
Colby refused, saying, "I've been invited to a private party." The protesters continued to chant protests directed against the CIA and Colby during Colby's dinner with the Neiman Fellows...
This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard...