Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe Judicial Board had discussed the sit-in before last night's meeting, but postponed releasing its decision until after Harvard did. The decision as to punishment had been pretty well decided before last night, the student said...
...explanation. I feel that there are important reasons why students approach change violently. If the Ad Board, administration, and faculty attempt to understand the fact that many students feel that change will only be produced by violence and attempt to discover why students feel that way, the Paine sit-in will be put in its proper perspective...
Master Gill concludes that those involved in the sit-in "have attacked the concept of reasoned discussion on which this university is founded and for which it exists. In this instance, their offense against the laws of the university is even more deeply an offense against its spirit." Master Gill expresses a principle which finds violence and offense against the law detrimental to the university community and contrary to the basic precepts of Harvard. For me, that is a principle which is difficult to disagree with. However, punishment would never be a problem if we could feel justified in exercising...
...signatures for its petition through dining-hall and dorm canvassing this week. The petition--printed on page 5 of today's CRIMSON--says, "We will continue fighting the presence of ROTC at Harvard. We call for the abolition of ROTC and no punishment for those involved in the sit-in." The petition will be presented to the Faculty meeting today...
...offering their blasphemous rendition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each made the more blasphemous by this company's astonishing capacity for off-the-cuff stage gibberish. The few children in attendance continue to despite the Pooh Players and all they stand for, but the adults sit by in tolerant amusement. Lewis Carroll would make mincemeat of his grave...