" 'All those who favor kicking ROTC off but not taking any militant...'

"A kid up front shouted out, 'That's not what we're voting on!' The chant of Vote! Vote!!' went up again.

"The SDSer was flustered.

" 'OK. All opposed to taking over the building!'

"It was an overwhelmingly obvious nay.

"Jared Israel came out of the door to University Hall and grabbed the microphone. He looked flustered too and stutteringly made the worst harangue I've ever seen him give.

" 'OK. Now you've had your cute little vote. But don't think you're going to stop us from fighting imperialism! Your little vote was ridiculous because it included imperialists deciding on whether we should fight imperialism."

"It was 5 a.m. and already light. The streets were deserted. Many thoughts ran through my mind. I thought of my optimistic conversation with Professor Lipset during the afternoon in the Yard. 'If the administration just plays it cool, maybe Harvard can turn the tide and be the first school to defeat the New Left.' He answered, "The question is whether they will be stupid enough to call the cops.'

"I thought how the people of Prague must have felt when they got up early one morning and saw Soviet tanks all over their city.

"It was all so helpless and so absurd. The police wore baby-blue helmets. They marched in military formation. It was so stupid."