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Among the many unhappy ways to spend any part of one's life I think perhaps being in jail is one of the least attractive. It is very strange, then, that I should commit, or urge upon men of draft age at Harvard, an act which might introduce into your lives a slim, but nonetheless real possibility of incareeration...
Norr said in an interview that he expected the submitted resolution would state the four points the two organizations agreed upon and then would state the differences the groups expressed on expanding class size. The two organizations had agreed that the Gill sub-committee should collect and publish cost figures on deconversion, that space should be left in the new House for classrooms and seminar rooms, that off-campus living should not be abandoned, and that students should participate in the deliberations and decision of the Gill sub-committee...
...infusion of new energy. It was so during the "spirit photography" vogue of the 1860's and '70's, which commenced in 1861 when one W.H. Mumler, an engraver employed by a Boston jewelery firm and in his off hours an amateur photographer, first claimed to have stumbled upon the ability to produce images of the dear departed standing or clustering behind a portrait sitter. After Mumler, a deluge of spirit photographers, most notably Mssrs. Beattie, Hudson and Bournsell of London, Duguid of Glasgow, Bland of Johannesburg, Wyllie of California, and Buguet of Paris, practiced widely and appear to have...
...notion of the slave system: that slavery, although morally wrong, was used with such charity, benevolence, and restraint that an organized, bloodthirsty insurrection was inthinkable. Nat Turner proved otherwise. The psychological and physical oppression of slavery was supposed to make organized revolt impossible, and the system was doubtlessly emasculating upon most slaves. Nat's revolt stood as a momentous threat to the slave society's security...
Samuel Turner looked upon Nat as an experiment to destroy the myth of the Negro's inferior intellect. He exhorted Nat and gradually gave him responsibilities. Styron bases Samuel Turner on John Hartwell Cocke, who was a leading spokesman for emancipation in the Virginia legislautre of the early 1880's. (Ironically, Samuel Turner's efforts to educate and "housebreak" Nat ultimately resulted in the revolt that doomed the growing movement for slave emancipation in Virginia.) Styron takes the philosophy of Cocke and puts it directly into Samuel Turner's mouth. Turner's discussion with two ministers are, word-for-word...