Word: grahamism
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...Graham and her allies were worried Harvard would encroach deeper into their neighborhood. They had been aiming to elicit a promise that the University’s expansion would not cross Putnam Avenue—a major thoroughfare that runs through Riverside two blocks in from Memorial Drive...
...Graham recalls that it was only as an “afterthought” that she and 50 others interrupted the Commencement exercises. They brought their own megaphones and even seized the microphone from the graduation speaker...
...Some of the students had signs saying ‘Get out of Vietnam’ and also ‘Get out of Riverside,’” Graham says...
Although then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 took the microphone away from her, Graham says her tactics worked...
Much has changed for Graham and for Riverside, but the hot issue—Harvard growth—has not lost its heat...