Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent in black ghettos, the sudden move to white campuses often produces cultural shock. Everything is so white. How can a slum Negro cherish the glories of Greek culture, for example, while his sister supports him by ironing The Man's shirts? Even middle-class Negroes are often upset. Says Byron Merrit, a political science major at Syracuse University: "If white education is increasingly 'irrelevant' for whites, what is it for us?" Merrit's concern is that college will sweep him into the white world and alienate him from his less fortunate black brothers...
PRINCETON, N.J. April 26--The Harvard tennis team upset a powerful Princeton squad, 5-4, today to retain a chance for first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The netmen are now counting on tre Tigers to beat Penn, so that all three teams can tie for first place, as they did last year...
Tiger coach John Conroy said, "Harvard was really up and hungry for it." He compared today's upset with the 1965 contest, when Princeton, favored to win, hosted Harvard but lost to the Crimson team, 4-5. In that contest, the Tigers won four of the singles but lost all three doubles...
...Saturday, the Crimson will face its biggest challenge. The racquetmen are hoping for an upset victory over Princeton, and for Princeton's defeating Penn, so that all three teams can tie for first place as they did last year. In 1968 Princeton beat Harvard, 7-2, and through the years the Tigers have complied a 32-11 record over the Crimson team...
...reason that everyone became upset when the students committed their own particular crime of willful action was that everyone knew what it meant right away. Without any hesitation, everyone knew that these students "had seized a Harvard administration building in another in a series of campus disorders." The action had no purity, then, it was a symbol that everyone recognized. It was all a script that everyone knew because they had read it in the New York Times, and the administration knew it had two alternatives...