In a recent post mortem evaluation of the Yale riots, A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, charged the disturbances with prolonging "the infancy" of American university life.
"There is no longer any place in the American university tradition for riots," Griswold said. "Every time one happens it weakens the urgent case American higher education is trying to present to the public."
Yale policemen are reported to be angry that city police entered the campus, breaking an unwritten agreement that the university handles its own problems on its own property. New Haven police even went into some student rooms, for the first time in recent memory.
After Griswold's statement, Dean von Stade recalled the 1952 Pogo riots at Harvard, and observed, "I can laugh about a lot of things that go on around here, but riots are one exception. Whenever one occurs there is always the danger that someone will get hurt."
An official of the Harvard Police commented, "We're certainly happy they didn't happen here." He added that an unwritten agreement, similar to the one in New Haven, exists between Harvard and the Cambridge police.
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