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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONDAY, APRIL 22 -- A mimeograph has appeared around the campus charging SDS with using coercion to gain its political ends. SDS is for free speech for itself only, it is charged. SDS physically threatens the administration. SDS breaks rules with impunity while we (undefined) are subject to dismissal for tossing a paper airplane out a dorm window. Aren't you TIRED, TIRED, TIRED of this? Will Mark Rudd be our next Dean? Do something about it. Come to the SDS rally tomorrow and be prepared. At first anonymous, the leaflet reappears in a second edition signed Students for a Free...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

...sides. For Harvard, urban involvement in 1968 will mean a profound identity crisis--the end of detachment, tranquility and traditional standards of competence. For Roxbury, getting along with Harvard will demand compromise at a time when compromise seems too much to ask. In the end, both have much to gain, which may be the greatest hope for a successful link...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: The Ed School and Roxbury: Hostile Partnership | 5/7/1968 | See Source »

...encouraged, but student abuse of the democratic process must always be resisted. Students might well bear in mind the fine distinctions between reasoned dissent and raw intolerance, between knowledge and wisdom, between compromise and copping out. Already 1968 has produced one supreme lesson: students have much more to gain by working actively for change within the existing system than by dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY THOSE STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...Yale is always unpredictable and Navy looks strong this season," Barnaby said. However the Harvard coach predicts that his team "will seize every opportunity to gain a share of the league title...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, | Title: Harvard Netmen Seek Title Share After Quakers Defeat Princeton | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...this sense, Falstaff is everybody's Shakespeare, at once immediately contemporary and intensely Elizabethan. The director's uncanny ability to have it both ways is his audience's gain: Falstaff is both the first successful attempt I know to draw the Falstaff-Hal-Henry IV paternity triangle in terms of psychological realities, and incidentally the first realization I have seen in any medium which plays Elizabethan phallic bawdry for solid laughs, not embarrassed giggles or nods of appreciative recognition. It is, in this respect, an anthology of pleasures, a cinematic Christmas morning...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Falstaff | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

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