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...idea of creating alternatives to the public school system is not new. Kenneth Clark among others had long argued that the only way to educate the present generation of black children and to pressure the school system into long range reforms was to create as many different kinds of school systems as possible: schools run by the military, by industry, by the state governments, by the federal government, by anyone who was willing to give it a try. Naturally, everyone hasn't jumped at once...
...second faction backed the position of SDS's New Left Caucus which, although it also wanted to seize a building, said that the seizure should not come until later this week or next Monday. A march on Pusey's house to present the demands should precede the seizure, they said...
...Both the students and the teaching fellows voted overwhelmingly to have Gov 98 graded exclusively by the tutor and to abolish the present essay exam procedure," Hutchins said. Approximately 10 per cent of the concentrators and 50 per cent of the tutors came to the meetings...
Early in the meeting several demonstrators asked that all present get rid of any drugs. At least one person was smoking marijuana at the time...
Five months later, in mid-March, Brown reported to the directors that the membership analysis was complete and that, indeed, there had not been a quorum present October 23. By checking the membership lists against the Harvard, M.I.T., and Episcopal Theological School directories, the Coop ascertained that on October 23 there were 25,252 voting members out of a total membership of 50,299. Five per cent of this number would have been 1263. The alternate slate, therefore, fell 262 short of a quorum...