Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grading has no place in a New College group. But serious self-evaluation of group techniques and direction does...
...have to do some serious thinking on that issue of credit. Master Chalmers is still behind us. But credit will no doubt mean restrictions, and the New College has to be wary of restrictions. Then there are the larger questions of whether we should accept a status that we believe illegitimate, and of how we expect to change anything around here...
There are other problems. Our ideas haven't changed much over the summer. For instance, we're all the more convinced that encounter experiences are educationally valid. But encounter has become another Great American Fad. It's a serious and extraordinarily delicate undertaking, but people are rushing into it mindlessly. Even as we try carefully to integrate encounter with university education, there is a chance that the New College might degenerate into a far-out headquarters for home-made encounter groups. The same dangers exist in other areas. We want to avoid meaningless frivolity, but it won't be easy...
...surrounded in front of Claverly Hall by eight Harvard police and eight Cambridge cops in four squad cars called in by Harvard to arrest us. At first they refused to tell us what we were charged with, but conferred for a half hour trying to figure out the most serious offenses they could get away with booking us on. In the end we were charged with idle and disorderly conduct (max. penalty: a year in jail). disturbing the peace (6 mos. and a $500 fine). and defacing private property...
...building can attest, did not simply or accidentally "beat up someone" ; it was built upon violence, its reason was violence, and it struck widely, capriciously, and cruelly. This invasion should not be dignified as a political act, nor dismissed as a tactical error, but considered a set of serious crimes against innocent people, best handled by University discipline and by the public police and courts. Miss Harvey will have to separate morality and tactics rather more clearly if she is to build the strong movement she envisions...