Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completing his first year as dean of the School of Dental Medicine, said in a stewardship report to alumni and faculty, "We have come a long way in 12 months. . .unless we have adequate funds, we cannot continue to progress. Our plans have been made. But without substantially increased support from a variety of sources the school cannot fully implement these plans...
...second reason why Harvard's complacency proved misplaced. We had all studied what had happened in other Universities, particularly at Berkeley and Columbia, but also abroad. Many of us had concluded that Harvard would be spared because the specific issues which had allowed a small group to mobilize support elsewhere--issues related to the nature, policies and specific structure of those other Universities did not exist at Harvard. There was, it seemed, no widespread "alienation" of the student body, no breakdown in communications between students, teachers and administrators in an academic community with decentralized power and remarkable integration...
...Harvard education or procedures. Others came out of a desire for solidarity with the occupiers, or for an exhilarating experience. Thus the group in the building was far from homogenous. The numbers in the building did not exceed 200 to 300, and there was little evidence of widespread student support outside...
Much of the debate centered on the question of whether SDS supporters should go along with the ad hoc committee's walk-out. Some SDS members termed the ad hoc committee's walk-out pledge which does not specify support of the SDS demands--"bad politics," but arguments that SDS should not alienate potential allies...
Finally, the Committee's letter totally ignores the real issues--ROTC and expansion--and instead smugly invents "diverse motives" for us. Our common motive for taking University Hall was support for the six SDS demands and agreement that only militant action can be effective in fighting the violence and exploitation perpetrated by the Harvard Corporation on working people in Cambridge and throughout the world...