It's at first amusing and then depressing to read about educational ideals and protests in the 1960s and to feel like they might have happened yesterday. Here's a sketch of the exchanges between students at the New School College, the New School's first serious effort at undergraduate education, and administrators in 1968.
Joseph S. Lobenthal, “The Catabolism of a Student Revolt,”
Journal of Higher Education 40/9 (December 1969): 717-730, 722
