Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat and the tone in which it was given alienated more students than it scared. The Chapel disturbances were taken up by an even larger number than before that evening. Thus, on the next day President Quincy retaliated by dismissing two students from the College--Trask of the Sophomores and Barnwell of the Freshmen...
...addition to the petition a vote was taken to cease the hostilities, but the Sophomore Class refused, and rather than cease the disturbances they decided to vacate their seats in Chapel. The Sophomores, then, did not attend Chapel that evening or the next morning...
President Quincy did not answer the petition the next day. Pressing to blunt the protest instead, the Government of the College decided to suspend one Freshman and one Sophomore the next day. Consequently the noise at evening Chapel increased although the Sophomores still left their seats vacant...
...President issued a stern warning to the Sophomores after that, and the next morning the Sophomores appeared in Chapel after a three day absence. Yet still in defiance of the authorities they entered through the door usually reserved for the Freshmen. For this action President Quincy asked them to stay after the services were over, but the class, rather than submitting to the demand, marched out with the rest of the class in the normal...
That evening the Freshmen took the seats of the Sophomores at Chapel. The next morning the Government of the College, continuing its policy of retaliation, expelled two Freshmen who had led the Class into Chapel and one Junior who was accused of making a disturbance in Chapel. Consequently, the Juniors in another defiant meeting overwhelmingly voted to wear Black crepe on their arms for the next three weeks to display their open hostility to the administration's injustice. They also resolved to publish a circular that would give a fair account of the events...