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Northeastern and the Smith Cup awaited Harvard the next weekend. Not even the sudden and unexpected departure of three team members--sophomore Samuel Brooks, senior Connor Spreng and senior coxswain Dipanjan Banerjee--after an alleged rock-throwing incident was enough to stop Harvard's charge...
Associate Professor of Government Samuel J.Popkin (left) becomes a symbol for academicfreedom in November, 1972. Subpoenaed to testifybefore a Boston grand jury in the case of DanielEllsberg '52, Popkin refuses to answer the jury'squestions. To speak before the grand jury wouldhave compromised his sources and his future inacademia, Popkin says in a defense rejected by theSupreme Court...
...time when the country seemed in the midst of a revolution, Samuel Beer's class on revolutions taught us what it meant for a society to be turned upside-down--and what worked to turn it back right-side-up again on a just foundation. In Henry Aaron's class on the 1930s, we read James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. and studied the parallels to another time of great unrest, protest and poverty, when people believed they could change the social conditions of America...
...Samuel Johnson wrote, "Life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. Not for itself, but for a nobler end the Eternal gave it; and that end is virtue." Use Commencement as an opportunity to stop for a moment and examine your life, your personality and your conduct...
...Samuel Holloway Bowers is a Klan leader right out of central casting. One of his grandfathers was a wealthy Louisiana planter; another was Eaton J. Bowers, a Mississippi Congressman from 1903 to 1911. But as Imperial Wizard of the Klan in Mississippi, Bowers compiled an unequaled record of murder and mayhem. Klan experts suspect him of orchestrating more than 300 bombings, assaults and arsons, plus nine murders. He served six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with the deaths of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, the civil rights workers whose killings were depicted in the movie Mississippi...