Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Hanify '71, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council was easily the most popular speaker at the symposium. Clyde E. Lindsay '69, a member of Afro, also received praise, but the venom was heaped on Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
Along with perennial front-runner Truman, other favorites for this year's awards are poetess Marianne Moore, former secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, and New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay...
Sources close to Massachusetts Hall say that the Corporation has been deeply split over the choice of Lindsay-a graduate of rival college Yale. However, the Harvard administrators reportedly feel that Lindsay's defeat of Norman Mailer '43 in the New York mayoral race may help Mailer lose his race for the Harvard Board of Overseers...
...Some measure of thanks for that seemed clearly in order," one member of the Corporation said of Lindsay...
Many church leaders nevertheless recoiled both at the tone of the document (it mentioned "armed struggle" if necessary) and at Forman's aggressive tactics in publicizing it. A few were ready to accept New York Mayor John Lindsay's offer of police protection for houses of worship. Others were obviously moved by the manifesto's charge that Negroes had been "kept in bondage and political servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council...