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Good-Natured

"By tradition," he continued,
"the student body at Charlottesville
is good-natured and patient; this is
no Berkeley or Columbia in temper.
But by stupid ignoring of students'
real grievances...the university's
administration may succeed in
alienating and angering even the
most moderate and thoughtful of
students," he warned.

"Patrick Henry declared that
George III might profit by the
example of certain other monarchs
who had ended unhappily; so might
President Edgar Shannon profit by
the example of Chancellor Clark
Kerr, at Berkeley," Mr. Kirk
advised.