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1969 The Mood Then...

To the Editors of The Crimson:

While the SDS demands are well-founded and directed, it is my opinion that equally valid arguments can be found for the termination of the Harvard Business School.   Jeffrey B. Perry

April 16

Supports Radicals

To the Editors of The Crimson:

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Add us to those older alumni who support the radical students at Harvard and Radcliffe. President Pusey's unreserved support for ROTC following the clear faculty vote against it showed how authoritarian is the administration philosophy.

Where alternate ways to exert pressure to end the great crime of the war are cut off, how better should the students act against a system of society which has failed itself by failing the poor, the Blacks, and also the students?   John C. Gray '30   Helen L. Gray '32

April 17

Politician

To the Editors of The Crimson:

FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENT PUSEY. DEAR PRESIDENT PUSEY AS YOU MAY RECOLLECT I'M UP FOR ELECTION ON THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS. AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD ALUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE. SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL YOU AS INCONTESTABLY CLOSE-MOUTHED, I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASING THE TEXT OF THIS TELEGRAM TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON FOR PUBLICATION. YOURS I HOPE. AT THE FIRST MEETING NEXT YEAR OF THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS UNLESS. KIND FELLOW, YOU FIND IN THE INTERIM THAT YOU GOTTA GO.

FUTURES IN TRUST.   NORMAN MAILER

April 21

Charges

Harvard should not be surprised by the failure of its efforts to get criminal charges dropped against those students who sat in last week at University Hall. Neither Judge Edward M. Viola nor the people of Cambridge take kindly to seeing Harvard use outside police as a kind of private army, to do the University's rather than the community's bidding.

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