Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth College, strong sentiment against the Viet Nam war has long focused on the nearest target: ROTC. In democratic fashion, the college last month submitted the issue to a student referendum. Duly reflecting the results, the faculty then voted to abolish ROTC over a four-year period so that incoming freshmen who are counting on miltary scholarships will not be penalized. The plan did not satisfy a radical minority led by members of Students for a Democratic Society. Calling for the immediate abolition of ROTC, they vowed to stage "an act of civil disobedience...
Instead of adopting fluster or bluster, Dartmouth's President John Sloan Dickey coolly warned that he would seek a court injunction and summon police if any buildings were seized by students. Both sides thus knew precisely where events were taking them, in sharp contrast to recent campus collisions across the country...
Ancient Aberration. When 100 radicals seized the Dartmouth administration building, Dickey & Co. went to work. Armed with an injunction, the local sheriff read it over a bullhorn and ordered the invaders to leave. Two hours later, a deputy warned the occupiers that they were liable for contempt of court. Meantime, New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, a Dartmouth alumnus and trustee, mustered a force of state troopers and personally directed them to shun violence...
...aggressive as Bambi during menopause, if deer are indeed subject to such slowdowns. That was the pattern in almost every game. Harvard was routing Penn before the Quakers rallied for several late goals and then crushed the Crimson, 4-0, in overtime to take the win. Harvard led Dartmouth, 3-2, at the half, but then the Ivy cellar-dweller came back to triumph, 9-6, for its first Ivy win in three years...
This season has been nothing less than a disaster. Having it appear as such in print will bother some of the players. After the pitiful Dartmouth game, one of them said to be kind to them since they had had a depressing enough experience just playing the game. But I was too subdued when I reported the game; I failed to demonstrate what a horror show it was. Out of all this misfortune and now critical press coverage, maybe something good will develop. Maybe next year all of Harvard's talent can be put together to make a winning, perhaps...