Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleasant sight: Harvard's President Derek C. Bok, stalking tight-lipped through the Yard, followed by at least 75 chanting students who would not leave the poor man alone--through the Yard, across Mass Ave, down a block, across the street again, and finally, as he tried to get away in a siren-shrill police...
...would be unfair to say Bok's reaction--that tightlipped stalk across the Yard--was a particularly surprising one. If these students wanted only a confrontation, why should he submit? Especially when, as everyone knows, confrontation leads only to deadlock and frustration, serving no constructive purpose...
...colonizing efforts in Angola; and, most importantly, the nine years that have passed since Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, called the Cambridge police in to remove 150 demonstrators from University Hall. The swarms of police and the proliferation of locked doors that have appeared in the Yard all week bear witness to the administration's siege mentality. Bok seems to have forgotten, somehow, that the days of rage are over, and th at Harvard's presidents rarely run away from demonstrators any more...
...Corporation's open hearing a statement he made at two less formal meetings with undergraduates in the Houses--that he finds it "charming" that undergraduates think they can influence corporations. Certainly, that statement would not have elicited polite applause form the people who followed Bok across the Yard Monday. It would have been impolitic, at best, to throw his views in their faces...
...point about the role of U.S. corporations, he would undoubtedly have been left alone. (Probably he would have been left alone no matter what his view, though his image as a good liberal might have suffered.) Certainly he was in no physical danger: the plethora of policemen in the Yard attested to his safety, even if the general decorum of the entire afternoon did not. Indeed, his decision to leave U-Hall while the demonstrators still sat outside suggests Bok was not particularly afraid of actual violence. In the end, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Bok, rather...