Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychology as too crude. More goes into the making of a student activist than the two drives of altruism and generational hatred. But his sophisticated treatment of the generation as a historical unit compensates for this lack of couth at the individual level. The concepts of deauthorization and gerontocracy explain convincingly why generational revolt occurs at one period and not another. A more thorough discussion of student populism, however, might have included the "neighborhood effect" at Columbia and Harvard. It might also have explained how the politics of university administrations aggravate generational hatreds. The book admittedly ignores the mistakes...
...subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that most of what is learned in school is necessary for later life, how then are we to explain the obvious fact that people generally forget most of what they learn in school after they leave? If the subject matter taught in the schools is necessary for the performance of basic tasks in adult life, then we should expect that this subject matter will be re-inforced by work experience...
...recite his Greek lessons. His instructor, Mr. Durkin, reacting to this provocation with speed and strength, hotly demanded that Maxwell obey. Maxwell adamantly refused, stating that he did not recognize his Instructor's authority to command obedience. The next day Maxwell was called to President Quincy's office to explain the incident; two days later he again was called before the President, and when he left the second time he had requested permission to withdraw from the University. If in those days the administration knew that from small seeds large and disruptive oak trees grow, they failed to detect...
...late June the administration reopened the issue by calling on Freshmen to explain their role. In the process three Freshmen were suspended. The Seniors in the meantime were being examined about their circular. This resulted in the dismissal of seven Seniors just prior to their graduation. The last movement of any force to protest the injustice of the administration was made by the Seniors at this time. They voted to refuse their diplomas and their parts in Commencement. But when the administration threatened never to give them their degrees if they chose not to accept them then, they capitulated...
...hurts me--and I am sure I cannot explain the reasons to you if you do not feel the same hurt--to think that anyone would plead to this sensitive and conscience-ridden institution for amnesty if he meant to prick only its social conscience. To tell a professor that you occupied University Hall to free his life style is insulting and saddening. And, if you can't cope with the whole atmosphere of the place ("because they are trying to squeeze the life out of you") . . . you could leave...