Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coed from Vassar, the Boston Globe quoted, described Dartmouth as "a sylvan bucolic place with a good academic climate." She went on to comment on the week, "we must have coeducation; girls intellectually sit on their fannies when they are alone...
...round table represented a compromise that did not completely satisfy anybody, but it left intact the vital interests of all parties and permitted each to view the conference in whatever way it chose. It satisfies the Communist demand that the Front sit down as an equal partner in a four-party meeting. At the same time, since the table will be flanked on two sides by smaller, rectangular tables for secretariat personnel, the allies can point to that as proof that the conference is a two-sided affair. Picayune though that may seem, it is an important point; it allows...
Died. Dr. Courtney C. Smith, 52, president of Swarthmore College since 1953 and American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships; of a heart attack; in his office on the eighth day of an Admissions Office sit-in by militant black students. A Harvard man ('38) and Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students...
...Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education have decided not to punish their students who were involved in the Paine Hall sit...
Radcliffe students involved in the sit-in were earlier this week given a choice of probation or the responsibility to "organize, publicize, conduct and demonstably participate in one or more open panel discussions." Divinity School students have apparently only been asked to attend one such discussion...