Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasoned discourse. The previous argument would not be valid had this University been a totally coercive institution. But whatever Harvard's flaws and failure, about which this committee intends to speak clearly and firmly, there were other ways of dealing with them than the forcible occupation of University Hall...
...still as Spartan in its decor and as packed as ever. Jim's Place is gone and so is the Yard of Ale. "The Square didn't have a good restaurant then and it still doesn't," Leland said. The most poignant change seemed to be that Lowell Lecture Hall is now called by its proper name. Twenty-five years ago it was the New Lecture Hall...
...Following are excerpts from the Committee of Fifteen's letter to students disciplined for the University Hall occupation...
...Committee of Fifteen is fully aware of the diversity of motives that led students to participate in the forcible occupation of University Hall. Many had not approved of the decision to occupy the building or joined in any planning of the seizure. Some entered University Hall, and remained there, out of a desire to bear witness against evils or injustices which pervade our society or state policies. Some were unhappy about acts or statements of members of the University administration or governing boards, or impatient with what they regard as the slowness or bias of procedures for the redress...
This peculiar line-up of personnel was well suited to the kind of story Greater Bostonians liked to read about their cherished institution along the Charles. (Harvard is cherished in Boston, by the Brahmins, who think Massachusetts Hall is the hub of the universe, and by the three-decker-duplex dwellers who evince nothing but scorn for the University, but would pop their buttons if a son was ever admitted.) The papers relished every opportunity to poke good naturedly at Harvard's pomp and grandeur, or at its male chauvinism...