Word: deflected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editorial "Friday Night" in the issue of March 29 is one of the most greasy arguments I have seen put forth in your newspaper. While you have managed to acknowledge that the disruption was improper, it is evident that the main effort of the essay was to deflect attention from the immediate issues of free speech and violent repression, issues seen in the actual experience we have to undergo here in Cambridge, to unproved assertions regarding the war. What I take to be an oblique excuse of the disruption Friday,"...so must some uses of speech be prevented...
Which is of course to deflect the major thrust of the argument. The principle at stake is one of equal education-and if we've, theoretically at least, accepted that principle when applied to this country's minority groups it's about time it's extended to the female majority. Harvard, with its 10,000-man traditions, can offer no apology for its male-only past, but by implementing an equal admissions policy for the Class of '76, at least it doesn't commit itself to reenacting the sins of its fathers...