Word: incidentally
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Speaking in his thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high...
Bond and others at the time did not report the incident to the University, but about three weeks later wrote a letter to The Crimson describing the event.
They added that they had hoped another freshman would report the event to the administration, but after the three weeks of their classmates’ silence, Bond and Bows decided to decry the incident publicly.
The author of the Pogo strip was set to speak at Harvard that evening, and the crowd swelled to over 1,600, causing something of a police panic. Though all charges against the students were eventually dismissed, the incident came to be known as the “Pogo Riots...
Despite the acquittal, many undergraduates still felt that the officers had been unduly harsh, and the incident fostered lingering resentment toward the city’s police.