Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...February op-ed piece in The Crimson, Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 and Benjamin L. McKean '02, two PSLM members, began by describing a wave of anti-sweatshop sit-ins and protests at universities nationwide, then asked, "Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam War?...No these protests happened in February...
Entering Harvard in the wake of turbulent protests, the Class of 1974 found a quiet campus, with full coeducation taking its first tentative steps, final clubs reestablishing their presence on the social scene and students maintaining easygoing attitudes...
...Parry's first years, the final clubs were not a major factor in the campus social scene like they are today, he says...
...University Hall takeover of 1969 had shaken Harvard at its foundations. Students who had raided the administration building to protest the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) recruiting for the Vietnam War had been physically removed--some violently--by police, who were ordered to the scene by then-President Nathan M. Pusey...
...spirit of revolution left and Harvard "mellowed out," the social scene began to become a major part of student life...