Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once on the scene, Harvardman ('59) Scott was doubly disturbed. "No alumnus," he says, "can be indifferent to obscene chants in Memorial Church or the sight of Harvard Yard looking like a battlefield of the Crimean War. The polarization of the generations is galling, tragic and destructive. Harvard somehow never does things by halves...
...Yard continued to be the center of action as pickets marched in front of Emerson and Sever Halls yesterday morning. In the early afternoon, about 200 demonstrators gathered in front of University Hall and staged a march past the Houses, around President Pusey's house, and back to University Hall...
...Yard activity ended about 2 p.m. as a gentle rain drove picketers into Emerson and other buildings...
Berkson said the Law Faculty is trying to focus on events in the Yard although "there are parallels between decision-making at the Law School and the University decision-making process which resulted in the police action...
...arguments against using police to clear the building are self-evident. If we could have isolated the invaders of University Hall, while continuing a decent pattern of existence in the Yard, this would have been an infinitely better outcome than the one we have now to discuss. As I tried to explain, however, it is my firm conclusion that such an outcome was not a real alternative open to us. If there had been reality in the S.D.S. demands of the possibility of "talking the occupiers out" that too would have had to be carefully exploited. But the demands...