Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet now that I look back on them, our demands seem to have been no mistake. Not only did we never doubt them; they represented precisely what we wanted, and not just at Harvard. ROTC became a target of nationwide protest, and students struck against university expansion from People's...
As far as Harvard's expansion is concerned, we did not have much success. The affiliated hospital complex--now called the Peter Bent Brigham and Women's Hospital--has been built. My class agent reports that the University's coffers are full and the alumni ready to pledge. Especially when...
It may seem that I have missed the point. We protested to stop the War and Harvard's expansion, not to reform Harvard as a University. Perhaps the movement may best be judged by its own goals.
Both Stanford and the University of Texas at Austin, such with 5 million volume libraries, are suffering space woes as well. Stanford needs to build or lease more than three miles of additional shelves by 1986 to cope with its expansion, and at UT, even after adding a huge new...
The most dramatic series of student demonstrations was undoubtedly the uprisings of 1969. When the University failed to respond to student calls to kick the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) off-campus and half its expansion into the community, among others, more than 200 demonstrators took over University Hall, forcibly...