Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haven had made Dowling an athletic god and Boston went along. By midseason last fall, it became apparent that Yale would roll to an undefeated season. After Harvard beat Dartmouth, it realistically had only to dump Penn and outlast Princeton to set up a battle that sportswriters had waited almost a century to glorify. Harvard and Yale, both undefeated, headed by the gods, Dowling and Gatto, Yale's unstoppable offense against Harvard's unmovable defense, with the Ivy title at stake, and Dowling's deification on the line...
...very different question, not only because of the Freudian overtones, but because it really posed the problem: What would you do as a man to end the war in Vietnam? We all got silly then and pondered rather than the war, the concept of a talking bird, and then went off to study. But I had trouble, and spent most of the night wondering what I would be prepared to sacrifice to stop...
...said very slowly that there might be way in which those of us sitting at that table could bring the war to an end. Gasps. We lit the essential cigarettes and listened to his proposal for the creation and organization of H-RSC: The Harvard-Radcliffe Suicide Club. It went something like this. Once a week, one of us, drawn by lot, would make his way to Washington, to some public place where he would burn himself to death. Other Club members would make it known that he had done it to protest the war. The suicides would continue regularly...
Harvard personnel director John B. Butler replied that "Our recruiting effort lasted many months and included many local candidates. We did not find one who satisfied our requirements as exceptionally as Mr. Kinnard does. They [the NAACP] seem to say that we ruled out local people and went out to the foothills of Cincinnali to find someone. This is not the case...
...demonstrators then split into about six groups, which went to various offices on the fourth floor. Each group centered around a staff member of the Center Ithiel de Sola Pool, chairman of M. I. T.'s Political Science Department and early proponent of the controversial "Cambridge Project," drew the biggest crowd-about 50 in the foyer...