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When several hundred students, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), did what had never been done at Harvard and took over University Hall...
There was blood on the sidewalk in the Yard. There were press conferences, endless faculty meetings. "The New College" convened outside; the old college caucused indoors. Black students marched, SDS marched, moderate students marched...
...discovered during the April days that Harvard students were not immune to the same types of emotions which made the Nazi rise to power possible. I regretfully came to realize that SDS had hit upon a tactic which was unbeatable, even at Harvard... The SDS had suceeded in winning at Harvard, in having themselves accepted by all too many of the student body as our moral vanguard...
...point is that The Crimson didn't adopt its new pro-SDS line because of a duty to tell the truth regardless of fear of favor. It did so because a majority of the editors of the Crimson were incurable intellectual conformists, shifting with amazing sensitivity with what they sensed as the dominant currents...
...During an SDS meeting] someone rushed in through the door and asked for the floor. 'I've just been over at University Hall. I don't know whether this'll influence people's votes, but there are a lot of university cops guarding University Hall right now. We'd have to fight them...