Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Even before the caucuses began to control the Faculty in the Spring of 1969, the lines between them had been drawn on small issues. The day after students sat in at Paine Hall, the Dean of the Faculty asked for a vote of confidence. The Faculty, restless and disturbed that this kind of disturbance was possible, tabled the motion. "That was the beginning of a revolution," one professor said. Very soon afterward, the conservative caucus met officially...
...Faculty had always operated by consensus, but in the Spring of '69 the consensus was breaking down...
...debate over extending the experimental Social Relations 148-149 that Spring also cut directly into one of the Faculty's most sacred cows-departmental autonomy. The course was not only radically oriented, but by Harvard standards, radically structured, violating all academic standards that most conservatives had come to believe meant a Harvard education...
WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall in the Spring of 1969, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. While conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
Last Fall, the liberals had to face the dichotomy which the hurried events of the Spring had obscured: how liberal unity on national issues could be translated into unity on internal political issues...