Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been trained all our lives to believe that nothing we as individuals can do will make any difference, that acceptance of our condition is the key to fulfillment. The strike was for many of us the first opportunity to discover that we are each of us individuals with the capacity for rational choices and independent action. Now that exams are approaching, everyone feels suddenly helpless: there seems to be no way of overcoming Harvard's reassertion of its control over us in the next month. But that control depends entirely on our willingness to co-operate. Since exams...
...each class called a meeting in open defiance of President Quincy. A vote for a general strike and open disruption of the University was taken. The motion shook the passions of the students, as it resolved: "a black flag [of rebellion] be raised before tomorrow morning on some of the college buildings--that the whole college dance around the rebellion tree tomorrow morning--that no prayers or recitations be attended until these grievances be redressed." The motion was carried in the Junior and Freshman Class meetings, but before the meetings were dismissed word had been passed down throughout the seniors...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has decided to withhold the results of last week's strike referendum until Tuesday in order to give certain elements of the community one more day--today--to vote...
...guess is also that most people voted to return to classes because they were tired of striking. I would guess, too, that the first stadium meeting might have voted to suspend the strike if God hadn't sent us such a beautiful spring day. And I would guess that every strike at Harvard--unless its purpose in the eyes of almost every participant is to rectify out-standing political grievances--will run into a gloomy day on which it will...
...undergraduates and graduate students who have not yet voted in the referendum on the student strike may do so by coming to 52 Dunster St., Room 206, between 9 and 12 a.m. today...