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Over twenty-five hundred of us had crowded Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, and Lowell Lec- only twenty-five hundred, for exhilaration must not be sought in mere numbers. One wonders why they had even bothered to come. Surely not for information's sake. The whole pretense of ? "teaching" was a sham. That phase of the peace movement had pretty much ended back in '66, back before many of us had worked out our need to fight against the war. We had never had to "learn" about the war. We had grown up in hating...
Others filled Memorial Hall and part of Lowell Lec to hear former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.), New York Times columnist Tom Wicker and six other official speakers declaim against American policy in Southeast Asia. Others listened on WGBH radio. Harvard station WHRB broadcast the Beanpot hockey game...
LATE MONDAY afternoon, John Fox, the apparently wry director of the office of Graduate and Career Plans (OGCP), stood in front of this year's senior class in Lowell Lec to tell us about the future. That is, if you assume the future is synonymous with financial grants given to industrious college graduates by such families as Rhodes, Shaw, Knox, Sheldon...
Last year, our friends in Harvard '70 warned us, in no uncertain terms, that this last school year would pose some new and unsettling problems. We listened, we sympathized, we failed to understand. Only Monday, when the honest Mr. Fox stood up in Lowell Lec and told us, in effect, that there was nothing to say did we realize that there is, well, nothing to say and little...
...what those guys in NAC are feeling like doing." Four days later, a mass meeting of 2700 Harvard students, Faculty, employees and assorted Greater Boston radicals was in the process of voting for a strike at the University. As the meeting- held in Sanders Theatre. Memorial Hall, and Lowell Lec, and linked by a halting PA system- wound on its way, couriers scurried back to the Harvard Administration's command post in Grays Hall with reports, dismal ones. SDS (or NAC) was planning (had already begun) a march to burn down Shannon Hall (or the Center for International Affairs...