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...late June the administration reopened the issue by calling on Freshmen to explain their role. In the process three Freshmen were suspended. The Seniors in the meantime were being examined about their circular. This resulted in the dismissal of seven Seniors just prior to their graduation. The last movement of any force to protest the injustice of the administration was made by the Seniors at this time. They voted to refuse their diplomas and their parts in Commencement. But when the administration threatened never to give them their degrees if they chose not to accept them then, they capitulated...
According to the circular of President Quincy, which has already been quoted, the disturbances were "without cause." Even in the statements by Quincy after the affair had concluded, he held to his original non-thesis. For the President of Harvard College in 1834, the only causes of the spiraling hostilities were the bad manners and impertinence of the students...
After this Lockean statement, the circular went on to show the facts of Quincy's unjustifiable act. First, President Quincy was accused of saying to a group of several students, "We want no Southerners here; we cannot prevent your coming, but we don't want you; go somewhere else." Second, they attacked Quincy's call for public justice. "Mr. Quincy has formed a determination which no prudent man can approve. . . . He is about to introduce into academic discipline the full vigor of Criminal law." After affirming that they did not object to the laws of the institutions, only Quincy...
...Senior class circular pushed this same line of reasoning but in a longer, and more eloquent form. The reason for their circular, they stated, was to refute the President's Circular "which contains a statement not belived by the students generally to be full and correct, and which they think is calculated to make a false impression on the public mind." After relating the events as they saw them, the students substantiated the Juniors' charges agains President Quincy and added one of their own: that Quincy actually told Barnwell when he arrived at Harvard that he did not like...
...another sense the disturbances at Harvard had deeper and more serious causes than those revealed in the escalation of tactics by both sides. Thus, the senior circular, while it spent most of its effort identifying the faults of President Quincy, eventually came to the short but essential conclusion: "Perhaps the circumstances which we have revealed have been only the immediate occasion of the recent disturbances. The causes have been long in operation...