Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollution era, agonistic Teddy Roosevelt would no doubt have Australian-crawled to the wooded island in the Potomac that now bears his name. Less energetic visitors these days can get there by boat or pedestrian causeway. Last week, on T.R.'s 109th birthday, his kin and his successor nine times removed walked to the park like ordinary tourists, there to dedicate a memorial to the 26th President...
...committee, when it is finally established, may serev only to conciliate students infuriated by what they see as University complicity with the war. It is unlikely to ask Harvard to sever connections with the outside world. In any case, there is no doubt that the demonstration forced the Administration and Faculty to question the effect of the war on the University more seriously than ever before. In this respect, the probated students were effective. But this small, politic concession by the Faculty does not mean that any substantive changes will follow...
...still think we're a good team, and I still think we're in the race for the Ivy title. The competition is tremendous, and I doubt that anyone is going to get through undefeated," he added...
Demonstrations against the war will no doubt continue. Students who oppose it have a right and a duty to express their opposition. Civil disobedience is not the only way, and it is not the best way--demonstrations are an expression of impotence, not power, and it will take a building of political strength to end the war. But civil disobedience is one way for students to call attention to the incursions of the war on their campus: and the intensity, inevitability, and morality of their protest should be respected...
STUDENT power now is confined to demands for granting more parietal hours, revising some course reading lists, and ending class ranking. The war, no doubt, will become more and more a focus. And one act could be the catalyst for hot opposition to Harvard traditionalism and paternalism...