Volume 15, Number 5 · September 24, 1970
Harvard on My Mind
By Kenneth Keniston
The Harvard Strike
by Lawrence E. Eichel, by Kenneth W. Jost, by Robert D. Luskin, by Richard M. Neustadt
Houghton Mifflin, 381 pp., $6.95
Push Comes to Shove
by Steven Kelman
Houghton Mifflin, 287 pp., $2.95 (paper)
The Right to Say "We"
by Richard Zorza
Praeger, 214 pp., $6.50
To ask how it could have happened at Harvard reveals a basic misunderstanding of 'campus unrest' and of modern society. Yet the assumption that student protest results from there being something wrong with students or colleges dies hard. After 1964, that assumption drove faculty members away from Berkeley toward what they thought would be the quieter groves of Academe at places like Harvard and Columbia. The same assumption led Archibald Cox, the Harvard law professor who headed the Fact-Finding Commission on the Columbia disturbances, to predict that it wouldn't happen at Harvard because of Harvard's close faculty-student relationships, residential houses, and tradition of undergraduate teaching.
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