Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sophomores were ordered to be off the campus by two o'clock of that day. After that time the administration finally replied to the petition. Their statement announced a refusal to reinstate Barnwell...
...increasing swell of publications the administration and the students battled with words. The administration under the name of President Quincy issued a defensive circular accounting the events as they saw them. The next day the Senior Class began drafting its statement as a reply to President Quincy's circular. But the Board of Overseers also entered the engagement by appointing a committee to look into the affair. The report of this committee under the chairmanship of former President John Quincy Adams, a relative of Josiah Quincy, was an indictment of the Senior Class circular...
...Juniors of 1834 had a different theory. They took the particular instance of the expulsion of Barnwell, and calling the incident unjust, showed that the source of the injustice was President Quincy. The statement began with a long justification of the actions of the Junior class. "It is undoubtedly the duty of those who are connected with any institution to obey its laws as long as they continue as its members," began the Junior class publication. "But when the measures of those who are at its head become such as appears to them unjustified and oppressive, if open resistance...
After this Lockean statement, the circular went on to show the facts of Quincy's unjustifiable act. First, President Quincy was accused of saying to a group of several students, "We want no Southerners here; we cannot prevent your coming, but we don't want you; go somewhere else." Second, they attacked Quincy's call for public justice. "Mr. Quincy has formed a determination which no prudent man can approve. . . . He is about to introduce into academic discipline the full vigor of Criminal law." After affirming that they did not object to the laws of the institutions, only Quincy...
...Senior class circular pushed this same line of reasoning but in a longer, and more eloquent form. The reason for their circular, they stated, was to refute the President's Circular "which contains a statement not belived by the students generally to be full and correct, and which they think is calculated to make a false impression on the public mind." After relating the events as they saw them, the students substantiated the Juniors' charges agains President Quincy and added one of their own: that Quincy actually told Barnwell when he arrived at Harvard that he did not like...