Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 18: President Pusey immediately responded to the Faculty's academic freedom statement. Pusey sent a letter to the signers of the statement saying that he would "do everything in my power... to see that the freedom of this University continued unabated, proof against attacks however well-intentioned or from whatever quarter...
...finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom to keep people busy...
...broad radical organizing against University expansion, U.S. imperialism, and racism, in one package--which SDS and the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party are trying in such neighborhoods is no easy job. During the period of the strike, the results of that organizing were minimal. About 200 people, half of them students, came to an April 12 rally in Central Square to support the six SDS demands. Two days later, only 12 Cambridge people, none of whom looked older than 22, picketed outside a City Council meeting which was debating a resolution commending President Pusey and the Cambridge police for their...
Studying, the activity that this world wants her to want to do, might be a way of climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...
Everyone is in the same predicament. It is hard to take the responsibility for one's own existence without privacy and without time. It is hard to use even the freedom one does have, for it is hard to realize it is there. The noise of the dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands--the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign or sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude...