Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swanson's article (Tuesday, March 7) about Professor Herrnstein's "incident" with UAG and SDS is interesting and, no doubt, honestly written: but it does not say exactly what this incident...
Even after we follow Swanson, Herrnstein, and "the group--its numbers now swollen to 20-25" on and off of two elevators, pace the sixth-floor corridor of William James with them, and walk with them in and out of the seminar room, we never learn what happened. Still less do we learn what it was all about...
...only clues are three references to "questions" in the article. Mr. Swanson says of "questions" 1. that Herrnstein left a "barrage" of them "unanswered" in his wake," 2. that SDS and UAG "continued to shower him with" them, 3. that they concerned Herrnstein's "alledgedly racist theories and his views on an Indiana sterilization law," and 4. they they were "persistent...
Herrnstein "remained unresponsive." (I am indebted to Mr. Swanson for the description...
...belive the details of Mr. Swanson's article are accurate. John Osler Episcopal Theological School