Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOVEMBER 22 -- X coagulates to paint a fence. A Soc Rel 136 (the radical critique of Harvard course) section had painted a construction fence opposite Lehman Hall the day before and had had their bursar's cards taken. X went into the teeth of the precedent with indifference. They put the first marks on the Harvard Hall fence before the few members were driven off by a couple of Harvard cops. The token triumph is announced to the people lunching at Lehman Hall, where what is later called a revolution ensues. Someone brings out a record player and starts...
...Harvard administration responded by calling the symbolic presence an infringement on democratic rights. After disciplining the wayward demonstrators, the administration established the Fainsod Committee to investigate the issue raised by Paine Hall. What was the issue? By now, it should come as no surprise. Of course the Fainsod Committee will look at student power, not imperialism...
Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said yesterday that since the Faculty's January 14 decision on Paine Hall the Committee has "suspended action on everybody," and has not reduced stipends of any students placed on probation...
...explained that "the issue of 'selective action' was forever laid to rest' when the Hoffmann resolution, asking exemption of stipend reductions for only Paine Hall demonstrators, was tabled at the last Faculty meeting on February...
Penn Station in New York is brightly lit and gilded plastic. It is not a proper home for trains. The dispatcher sits in a glass booth suspended over the main hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...