Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest. Nabrit was out of the country during the demonstration, and the University did not even talk to the student protestors before they ordered the school closed. It was almost two days before Administration officials sat down with students to discuss their demands. Several times University officials threatened to obtain a court injunction which would have brought Federal Marshals on the campus. The students sensed the bluff and only after student leaders made it clear that they would remain in the Administration building--injunction or no--until their demands were met did the Administration decide to talk rather than coerce...
...Club also approved a resolution to urge the Law Faculty to readmit without loss of credit students who are drafted, obtain occupational deferments and who go to jail or Canada for "conscientious or moral reasons...
...number of our first year graduate students feel in imminent danger of being drafted," Huntington said. "We thought that the M.A. would help them get part-time teaching positions in colleges and junior colleges in the Boston area, and thus obtain occupational deferments...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
David C. Ray '68 thanked President Pusey for constructing "a bureaucracy which enabled students to play one side against the other to obtain, what they want...