Word: movement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department said that Peace and Freedom Party members could lead a section on "Community Organizing: The Fight For Rent Control in Cambridge" as long as the section's emphasis was on "intellectual content" and the section did not become a tool of the rent-control movement...
...group of first year Law students, unhappy with the school's academic arrangements and especially its grading system, began a movement to change the grade system. They circulated a petition asking for a number of reforms, including replacing letter grades with pass-fail grades for first-year students...
...hand, the crises in the other Universities were mere manifestations of a widespread crisis of the University in advanced capitalist societies. It was naive to believe that a movement as broad and as deep as present student unrest would spare an academic community that prides it self not only on its intellectual achievements but also on its general involvement and leadership role. Indeed, Harvard's pride--some would call it self-satisfaction--only served to delay recognition of the fact that what was happening here was not a succession of discrete loud knocks at the door but the poundings...
...forcible interference with the freedom of movement of any member or guest of the University...
...past few months have witnessed the rapid spread of a movement among the industrial classes of Europe and America which threatens to undermine the very foundations of society and whose tenets run directly counter to those of a well ordered and peaceful democracy...