Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Norr '68 explained, "The Committee on Houses is not representative of the faculty sentiment as a whole, but of a small segment of men who have a vested interest in being paternalistic rulers of a boys' dormitory: being a Master means you have certain preconceptions as to what the social make-up of Harvard should...
...This sentiment is paradoxical considering that the HUC currently is having its most fruitful year. And as the student body becomes more radical, the HUC, with some major reforms, should be able to lead and organize future movements for University reform. To commit suicide now would be to throw away a viable instrument for turning student demands into concrete action...
...defendants have not decided whether they will have a single defense or whether mothers and students will have separate attorneys. There is a possibility of a meeting of mothers and students tonight to decide this. The current sentiment is that they will have a joint defense...
...Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver could not deliver ten lectures for a credit course on racism. This decision clearly violated powers over curriculum that had been held by the faculty since the 1920s. To the students, the regents also appeared to be trying to restrain the expression of Black Power sentiment. The course, Social Analysis 139X, was de-signed to let Cleaver have his say; but his arguments were to be dissected in section meetings by full-time professors. The regents decided that the course could not be given for credit...
Still, it was plain that sentiment within the Administration was overwhelmingly for a pause. From Paris, Averell Harriman was one of the first to advise that the opportunity should be grasped at once. Though nobody knew what Clifford told the President in private, studies from his staff tended to discount the value of continued bombing. "The results were so impressive," said one official, "that no one bothers to argue any more." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze was said to share the antibombing predilection...