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...time the "Great Diploma Incident" was over, Cambridge police--using tear gas to stop the outraged scholars--had arrested four students. University officials seized hundreds of bursars cards from students throwing eggs and firecrackers. Within a week, discussions of Pusey's decision had spread from the Cambridge City Council to the White House and the United Nations...
...diploma riots may be indicative of the fact that we had nothing else to do," Thomas N. Blodgett '61, a class marshal, said last week, adding, "It was as superficial an issue as you can possibly dream...
...controversy began when Eliot H. Stanley '63 circulated a petition protesting the new diplomas. "All traditions are not sacred; however, some are worth continuing and strengthening," the petition stated. "In our opinion, the Latinized diploma from the oldest of American. Universities is symbolic of a scholarly tradition worth preserving," it concluded...
Sophomore Bauer is back, but he is all that is back. Mark Bingham, Bobby Kelley and Rick Pearce, Harvard's second-and fourth-leading hitters and the EIBL's finest thirdsacker, have gone the diploma-and-real-world route. All that remains are their cleatmarks...
JOHN O'HARA said that school spirit was horse shit. The day before he was to graduate as valedictorian of Niagara University Prep School, he visited every bar in town. The next day, the school took away his diploma...