Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ROTC issue, which was the main cause of the Spring 1969 disorder, was more muted last year. Yet ROTC remains on campus, if only temporarily, and on May 5 an SDS-led march (with the rumored purpose of burning the ROTC building to the ground) was stopped by a group of moderate students who surrounded the building and persuaded the marchers to stop and talk about the issues...
...when the proposal for a permanent CRR came before the Faculty, it was not adopted until all passages in the resolution defining administrative responsibility were deleted. And this Spring, as the CRR punished almost 100 more students, requiring 11 of them to leave, it ruled that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...
...which was designed to streamline and shorten Faculty meetings, has had less than complete success. In a Faculty as large as Harvard's it is difficult to consider major issues with even minimal comprehensiveness. Criticism of the Faculty for confusion and chaotic procedures came after the meetings held last spring in the wake of the April University Hall takeover. Yet the new form of government seems to be having its own difficulties. While votes are taken more quickly and debate is shortened, charges of railroading and fixed agendas are more common...
...within the calm of the Yard in early September, there exists a second, separate peace of mind. Harvard undergraduates have inhabited this inner sanctum, this zonky womb, since 1640; and at the end of spring term year after year, the sudden departure of each freshman class-themselves and their books causes, their broken freshman furniture and egos-gives rise to the spirits of past classes who gradually, carefully, reclaim their former abodes, not to be dislodged before the Fall...
...LIBERAL caucus did not officially form until several months later, the day after police cleared students from University Hall last Spring. Composed of a more even mix of junior and senior Faculty members, and professors from the humanities and natural sciences, the liberals gathered not to defend the institution, but to give direction to the inevitable changes they believed must come...