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“Picketing the Pickets” (1971) By Eddie Germano

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Title:	“Picketing the Pickets” (1971) By Eddie Germano
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	225
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Added to Site:	8/13/2019
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“Picketing the Pickets” (1971)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
11 x 15 in, ink and wash on board

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990. He often depicted young people from the 1960s in the lazy, dirty no-good-nik stereotype.

During his presidency of Harvard (1953-1971), Pusey overhauled the admissions process, which had been biased heavily in favor of the alumni of New England-based boarding schools, and began admitting public school graduates on the basis of scores obtained on standardized tests such as the SAT. This was highly controversial with the school's alumni population, but set the stage for the diversification of the student body and faculty.

Pusey was a deeply religious man and a somewhat traditionalist scholar, and he was appalled by the student radicalism that raged in American universities in the late 1960s.

He complained bitterly "learning has almost ceased" in many universities because of the violent, revolutionary activities of a "small group of overeager young... who feel they have a special calling to redeem society." In April 1969, student activists occupied Harvard's University Hall (the building that housed most of the administrative offices) in protest over the presence of ROTC on campus at the height of the Vietnam War, and in response, Pusey summoned the police to arrest the demonstrators.

Although his action was legal, it was widely criticized, and the resulting furor probably contributed to his early retirement in 1971.

After his time at Harvard, Pusey was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1971–1975) and president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (1979–1980).

The bias of the cartoonist shows through again in the slogans on the signs that the faculty display as they surround the scruffy student dissidents.

Harvard has a long list of deserving students, get out and give them a chance.
Leave now. Demonstrate Later. And get a shave.
Start Studying.
Harvard grads back Pusey. Oppose Beards.

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