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Dean Ford likened the University to the pre-1789 French monarchy, maintaining it is "irrational, frequently unjust, tradition-bound, and culturally distinctive." If we tried to make sense out of it, it "would come down in a shower of blood," he concluded. It is in a state of balance in which all parts are kept going in "the compromising process of institutional life...
...reference was made by your reporter to the pillaging and looting of a private store by Negroes before they unmercifully burned this store and then stoned the firemen in an attempt to prevent them from controlling the fire. Mob violence under any guise or for any cause, just or unjust, is tragic and criminal...
They used to joke in Lexington, Mass., that new residents didn't need to join a country club-they already had the Hancock Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message...
...praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family." War is shown to be the disrupter of a contented world, rather than the outgrowth of a disparite and unjust...
...didn't have to discuss the route with him. I already knew it," Lynn replied. "We had reconstituted the underground railway" to protect Robert Williams from unjust persecution by the American government...