Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok spent his workday in seclusion at Dana Palmer House yesterday, 250 yards away from students who held a sit-in outside University Hall to protest the Corporation's recent decision on divestiture...
...wake of the Corporation's report, the events of the upcoming days are practically impossible to predict. Students have exhausted traditional means of protest, apparently to no avail. We hope that non-violent protest will continue; whatever transpires, however, the Corporation will have only itself to blame...
...entire episode must have been fairly disturbing to Bok and the protective group of deans who surrounded him late Monday afternoon. The horde of students--which earlier had been much larger and perhaps even more ferocious--had demanded Bok's presence at their rally to protest Harvard's holdings in companies operating in Southern Africa. The protesters had frequently raised their fists in threatening gestures toward the building in which they believed Bok sat; the whole scene must have been frightfully reminiscent of the crowds of angry students at the height of the antiwar movement...
Lewis M. Horowitz, co-chairman of the coalition of residents opposed to the power plant, said yesterday the protest march and the "people's injunction" were an attempt to convince Harvard to voluntarily stop constructing the plant...
Despite this incident, however, officials labelled yesterday's demonstration relatively peaceful and praised the work of some 25 University policemen, about ten of whom were in plainclothes, who monitored protest activities...