Word: decorum
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Peaceful protest belongs at Commencement. Nothing about the event makes it inherently more exalted than any other. An invitation to speak at Commencement, or an honorary degree, need not be an endorsement. In recent history, graduates haven't submitted to high standards of decorum. People decorate their mortarboards with odd accessories...
...would be a mistake to underestimate the opposition to Powell. The disturbances, due to their size and intensity, will far exceed those of Commencements past, and will violate the most basic sense of decorum to which Harvard's Commencement ought to adhere...
...fell in love with a young female student," Galbraith wrote in a 1983 letter to then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, published in Galbraith's 1986 book A View From the Stands. "A not wholly unpredictable consequence of this lapse from faculty and professional decorum, as now required, was that we were married...
...pulled out her boom box and plugged it into an outlet not far from the portrait of George Washington. Instantly a stern White House functionary informed her, "We've never had music in the Oval Office." Only the President, it was decided, could approve such a breach in decorum. "Sure," said Clinton, and Eric Clapton's album Unplugged began to fill the room. A Secret Service agent remarked to a colleague, "I told you we were gonna miss the other...
...Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber's campaign fizzled soon thereafter. Still, Silber's message, though transformed somewhat, has survived...