Word: co
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hustace H. Scott '70, one of the three students on the Committee on undergraduate Students and Studies said, "The students I've contacted have said the faculty's action was great as a first step." He added the faculty has been "co-operative and very willing to be helpful...
...losing only to Brown, 13-10. Gov. Dummer is 3-0 with a 6-3 triumph over Exeter to its credit. Harvard's stingy defense, anchored by goalie Randy Smith, will have to hold off a very potent Dummer attack made up of Andy Costello, Ralph O'Leary, and co-captain Tim Tenney...
...individuals with the capacity for rational choices and independent action. Now that exams are approaching, everyone feels suddenly helpless: there seems to be no way of overcoming Harvard's reassertion of its control over us in the next month. But that control depends entirely on our willingness to co-operate. Since exams and the academic structure which they support are not in our interests as people, nor in the interests of most of the people of this country, we should simply withdraw our co-operation. There are so many things to do in the next month that are more valuable...
Follow his logic and you can see it. You can reason out feelings which were previously undefined and stemmed from the heart more than the mind. You feel it, Marcuse says, because you have not yet been co-opted by a system which offers physical comforts to everyone in exchange for freedom of soul and of action. Workers are co-opted and will not rise to join the students until they can be freed from the giant labor unions which are just as much a part of the system as are the monopolies. The task before us is to break...
MARCUSE'S speech was full of the cliches which have become part of college life. But under his guidance they were no longer cliches. Words like repressive, co-opted, and liberation took on a new, fresh meaning under his masterful diction. I was ready to follow him anywhere...