Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is some chafing under the strain of the demand is some indication of the role that the resister sees for himself here. The anti-war activist is anxious to be about his business and can't, for fear of being packed up in the increasingly frequent demonstrations at McGill University. "I came here to get out of that middle-class bag," remarked one, "and look where they've got me now." But Logos, the local underground paper, harbors a number of the hippier American exiles; it is presently staffed by the usual long-haired contingent and a select...
Beyond that expatriates are expected to make their own way. Many of the younger ones drift to Toronto where the language barrier disappears and where the demand for physical labor is high. Of those who stay many go back to school at McGill and continue to work against the war, while others take to more esoteric pursuits. Midnght Magazine, with a circulation of over a million in the United States, is now written, edited, and published (complete with such fictional gems as "I was an LSD Baby") in Montreal by three college dropouts from New York...
Gatto will be the only non-Eli speaking at the dinner. Joining him on the podium will be Charles O'Hearn, representing the undefeated Yale team of 1923: Danny McGill, halfback on the 1956 club, and Mike Pyle, captain of the undefeated 1960 squad who is now captain of the Chicago Bears...
Rutgers English Professor Frederick T. McGill has given the pedagogical lie to hippiedom's worshipful identification with 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was no "true hippie," said the prof, because his rejection of society was really a matter of "giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials." And these essentials, McGill added, did not include blowing his cerebrum. "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant," lectured McGill. "He undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of mind-expanding drugs...
Sophomore Larry Terrell, filling in for Nayar at number one, was edged out, 3-2, in a heart-stopper by McGill's Peter Martin. Terrell had the Canadian inter-collegiate champ down 14-8 in the last game before Martin staged a brilliant rally...