Word: leavitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately attempted unsuccessfulily to escort him through the crowd which by then had grown to over 100. They stepped on and over three tiers of seated demonstrators but were then met by rows of students standing, with arms linked. A spokesman for the demonstrators, Michael S. Ansara '68, told Leavitt he could leave only after he signed a yellow sheet of paper bearing the hand-scrawled pledge: "I agree to stop interviewing on the Harvard campus and not to return for that purpose...
...demonstrators questioned Leavitt aggressively on napalm, Dow, and the war, until one protestor shouted, "Quit badgering him." Leavitt, a research chemist himself, said he didn't know enough about the war or Dow's policies to answer the questions. After a five-minute confrontation, he and Vanelli disappeared back into the conference room...
...Deans--Glimp, Watson, F. Skiddy Von Stade '38, and Burris Young '55--arrived a little after noon, and tried to lead Leavitt out. Ansara told them that although they could come and go, Leavitt could not, until he signed the pledge...
...demonstrators and "talk to each of you individually." But Ansara told them they had to deal with the group as a whole. At this point he gave Watson a wad of 140 bursar's cards collected from the protestors. The Deans then went back into the conference room with Leavitt...
Glimp made his second and final plea to not serve their purpose to detain Leavitt further...