Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist monks and nuns, women and teen-agers burned themselves alive to protest the U.S. presence and its support of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the military Directory...
...members of the Harvard Student Union, a leftist political organization that was determined to keep the United States out of the war Europe. From September of 1939 September of 1941 they waged a campaign that rivals in intensity and conviction anything that Students for Democratic Society has done in protest against the war in Vietnam...
Although the isolationists continued to form new committees and to protest, they soon lost the support of most undergraduates. A week after the rival rallies in the Yard ended in a near riot, a poll conducted by the Student Defense League revealed that 84 of 99 students in Eliot House favored substantial military aid to Britain. Enrollment in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was rising rapidly and every poll of Harvard students showed strong support for intervention on the side of the Allies...
...similarity between the Classes of 1917 and 1941 was not limited to the fact that both went to war, for the First World War also saw a significant amount of anti-war protest...
...Anti-war protests at Harvard followed essentially the same pattern in the First and Second World Wars. While the United States was still uncommitted and indecisive, students organized and petitioned and argued and protested. But once America became involved the dissension disappeared. The Vietnam war protest at Harvard is unique in the history of the University, not because it exists at all-- for Harvard has a long tradition of anti-war protest--but because it has not voluntarily dissolved itself as soon as the first American bullets were fired, as soon as the first American soldiers were killed