Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later here) that they organize to avoid employment in corporations of whose products they disapprove and classes of professors whose secret contracts they deplore. (I also suggested that this last was inapplicable under Harvard policy and that there be combined effort to find other forms of legitimate and effective protest.) I assume that Professor Smithies would suppress all protest. Many will doubt the wisdom of this course as also, I trust, the wickedness of the secret work on which he is engaged. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
...when the university's support is solicited by established agencies of power, it must decide if the services requested of it violate its defining purpose, and reject them if they do. And so, it is also obligated to protest when society has undertaken to violate, either in regard to the university itself, or humanity at large, those values the university is specifically charged to honor as a requirement of its public function...
...government consultant based in Cambridge put it last year, "Aside from the fact that they need our expertise, we can--and do--always hope that some of our advice will be heeded. Of course, it's up to an individual whether he would rather sign petitions of protest or try to persuade the officials who make the decisions." This attitude is fairly widespread...
...contrasts the peaceful protest at Harvard with the demonstration against Dow at the University of Wisconsin where "70 students were injured by riot-thrained police and 13 expelled...
...triumph of discourse-in-demonstration was made possible, in part, by the good humor of the Dow representative and the commendable tolerance of some deans, who let the protest run its course without resorting to the police," he wrote...