Word: found
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class of 44 came back to Harvard this week and found the college changed but on the whole "remarkably the same." As they drank and talked and danced to the music of a jazz band, they talked about things that had changed and mostly about today's students...
...movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with her to a class of Oscar Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But at its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim and offered a brief prayer that Harvard might have returned to normalcy by his course's next meeting...
Somewhere along the line I paid my tutor a visit, and found him incredibly depressed. His politics, I had long realized, were not mine--but he was a good guy and he was together and damn smart. And I found him calling radical "criminals" and talking about a wave of "anti-intellectualism" sweeping the University. He pointed out that even some of the most liberal Faculty people in the social sciences had opposed the Heimert resolution, which passed, he said, only with the votes of a lot of biologists and physicists who weren't going to have anything...
...admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
November 21: The nine Harvard students arrested in the welfare mothers protest were found guilty on charges of conspiracy and sentenced to three months in jail. Trial judge Elijah Adlow '15 offered the students a one-year suspended sentence if they promised to stay away from future demonstrations, but changed the sentence to three months non-suspended when the students appealed his decision...