Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally happened to Harvard, too. In a sequence of confrontations that has now become a deplorable custom on American campuses, a small band of student rebels seized an administration building to protest university policies and to deliberately provoke a crisis. Police were then summoned to oust the intruders; moderate students, angered at both the fact of the "bust" and what they felt was police brutality, were radicalized into organizing a strike. The three-day boycott of classes was the first in the modern history of a venerable institution that prides itself on its devotion to learning and the rational resolution...
...professors. And Levi has earned ample respect by years of brilliant scholarship, educational reform and urban involvement. But his example could well be studied by other college administrators. In one demonstration after another across the country, it has been the sudden application of brutal force that changed a mere protest into a bloody battle...
Hesburgh resisted calls for state and federal action, insisted that "the ultimate solution must come from within the universities." Student protest, he said, is a "resonance of the world's troubles on the part of young people at the university. You cannot ask young people to get involved and not put it to work on the world in which they are living. I think there are many legitimate reasons for protesting today, but the university has to do this according to its proper style, which is rationality and stability, not force and violence...
...Contacted early this morning by the CRIMSON, Calkins would not say whether the Bruner resolution on ROTC currently before the Faculty represented "a position of political protest against the war." He said that the original Bruner resolution was badly designed in some sections, and that he understood that it was being redrafted. "I wouldn't want to telegraph what the Corporation's action on the Bruner resolution would be," Calkins said...
...unfortunate that police should club Harvard students, but no more or less so than that they should club anyone else. Suppose that some ROTC cadets had seized the hall to protest withdrawal of credit from ROTC courses. Suppose that they had similarly ejected Deans and rifled files, and had been removed by a similar police operation. Would there be the same anti-administration feeling as now exists...