Word: halled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Pusey and the small circle of deans around him could conceive of only two responses to Wednesday's demonstration short of outright capitulation. They must now realize that they chose the wrong one. The Administration could have let the demonstrators stay in University Hall in the hope that their protest would be rendered ineffective by majority opposition to their tactics. Instead President Pusey and the Deans sent police to clear the building...
What happened was outrageous, but no more so than should have been expected. Letting the demonstrators stay in the hall would have inconvenienced the Administration and offended some sources of financial support, but these would have been a small price for the Harvard authorities to pay compared to the human and political costs of the course they chose...
...moderates, for their part, must continue to demand amnesty for the University Hall demonstrators. It is inconceivable to abandon the group which at great personal risk forced the necessary consideration of the issue. Furthermore, the moderates should join SDS in scrutinizing the University's often shamelessly selfish dealings with the Cambridge community...
...efforts to secure them. Today the Faculty is being hastily summoned to a special meeting, presumably to give a vote of confidence to the Administration, and to begin to consider punishment for the demonstrators. The Faculty should withhold this vote of confidence, and, as it did after the Paine Hall sit-in, it should consider the issues raised by the demonstration and by the Administration's response...
Stemming from our strong disapproval of the Administration's action of calling police on campus to remove students from University Hall on April 10, 1969, we the undersigned faculty and students of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department hereby suspend formal class meetings from Friday, April 11 through Monday, 14, 1969, in order to dircuss the issues more fully...