Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impending Beethoven Ninth concert. The Choirs, supposedly stripped of their talents by the reorganization of the Glee Club, were said to be less than protean musicreaders, and in general hopelessly inadequate to the almost insuperable vocal difficulties of Beethoven's masterwork. And so, as I entered the hall I remembered Robert Scott's famous lament at the end of his diary, written as the merciless Antarctic finally buried him: "We took risks; we knew we took them...
...VARIETY of visceral reasons the Faculty will probably be tempted to punish severely the students who sat in at Paine Hall. Some will quickly lump the R.O.T.C. demonstration with those against Robert McNamara and the Dow Chemical Company and conclude that this sort of thing can't be allowed to happen year after year. Others will be particularly offended because this Fall it was the Harvard Faculty, not unknown outsider like Dow's Mr. Leavit, whose usual business was interrupted...
...these considerations are beside the point in dealing justly with the demonstrators. Closely regarded, the Paine Hall sit-in calls for no punishment at all, certainly nothing so severe as requiring the students to leave the college...
...fact, no one physically prevented anyone from doing anything at Paine Hall. Because the meeting was cancelled so early, the students can be charged with preventing the Faculty from meeting only in a very shaky symbolic sense. At worst they disobeyed an order from Dean Glimp. That is an offense, but a milder and different one than physically blocking the movement of a Dow recruiter. It therefore merits milder, not more severe, punishment than the probation slapped on those who sat in at Malinckrodt--either admonition or no punishment at all. Expelling the demonstrators from the Harvard community (subjecting them...
Professor Stanley Hoffmann is right in suggesting that debate over how to punish the demonstrators is a waste of time delaying Faculty consideration of real issues like R.O.T.C. and student representation. But one trusts that he is wrong in claiming that the Paine Hall demonstration has lessened the chances of reforming the R.O.T.C program or changing the way Faculty business is conducted. It is hard to conceive of the Faculty's deciding these issues on the basis of petulance rather than reason. One trusts too, that the Faculty will handle the smaller issue of punishment with proper care, and that...