Word: lec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What did a feminist group stage outside Lowell Lec in May 1973 to protest the lack of women's bathrooms at Harvard...
...knew better, so maybe he hasn't changed). Shapiro presents Kazin as a leader of the "small group" which planned the University Hall takeover. In fact the plan was first worked out in the WSA caucus. We then presented it to a mammoth SDS meeting which almost filled Lowell Lec. Despite maneuvers by Kazin (who chaired) and his friends, we won a vote mandating whoever could to seize University Hall around the demands in the indeterminate future. The WSA caucus met later that night to plan the seizure, informed the outraged "new left" caucus of our plans the next morning...
Most Harvard students probably saw little need even for constructive alternatives to American foreign policy. The Young Democrats and the Young Republicans had both cabled support on Cuba to President John F. Kennedy '40, and the Lowell Lec meeting had been called by the most activist, most pacifist organization on campus, a group called Tocsin that never had more than about 80 members. Tocsin had grown out of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the summer of 1960--the same year that saw a minor flurry of small student demonstrations outside the Cambridge Woolworth's, in solidarity with...
...best moments of spring term was emerging from Lowell Lec and the last exam of the year and hearing the Cambridge Brass Ensemble playing from the tower of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Bring your lunch; the concert begins a little after noon. Strangely enough, the acoustics are slightly better outside the courtyard wall, allowing for occasional drowning out of music by truck traffic on Kirkland Street...
...Lowell Lec was filled to capacity. The Divine Light Mission, the organization of the followers of Maharaj Ji, generally draws pretty good crowds to "Satsangs" or Holy Discourses on the Harvard campus. But this time no more than half of the crowd were the faithful; the rest were the merely curious, drawn not by the discourse, but the discourser. For Rennie Davis, early SDS leader and member of the Chicago Seven, was now giving a May Day speech for and on his new-found religion--yeah, Rennie Davis was now one of Them...