Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former assistant dean of Harvard College (1930-39), I am interested to learn that some 300 students ejected 8 deans from University Hall yesterday, in protest against the University's efforts to keep the ROTC. This doesn't take me aback--but it does take me back, half a century back...
...open discussion in Burr B flowed back and forth Several alumni walked out stammering under their breath that the place hadn't changed a bit. Same old flaming liberals. Outside some older graduates paused to talk about student protest in general although none felt any immediate alarm over the possibility that it might happen at Harvard...
...stodgy rabbi (class of '24), his speckled-H Harvard tie clashing rather prominently with a blue pin stripe suit, voiced his agreement with Wald. "Some students maybe have a legitimate reason for protest because they don't want to be pawns on the chessboard of world politics that may get us down into a horrible hole from which we may never be able to be extricated...
...believe in seizing buildings, however. I don't believe in using violence. I'm not a disciple of Ghandi--I know we have a right to defend ourselves in case we are attacked, but I don't believe in outward affirmative violence," he continued. Asked about alumni response to protest, he said, "I think we will rise up as one. The university means too much to us to have it violated by any students that may be misdirected...
...have to get your skull busted--it's a big decision for you to make, an admirable decision in the all-American tradition. If you can convince me of why, I won't have these ideas about middle-class whites. You're the protest set instead of the jet set. How are we gonna change jet set. How are we gonna change the way we are, the whole country. Like in Yellow Submarine--is there a guy who can walk down the street and make flowers grow behind...