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On April 4, 1768, about one hundred angry Harvard College undergraduates, well over half the student body, left school and went home, in protest against new rules about class preparation. Their action constituted the largest student strike at any colonial American college. Pedagogues and Protesters recounts the year in daily journal entries by Stephen Peabody, a member of the class of 1769.

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On April 4, 1768, about one hundred angry Harvard College undergraduates, well over half the student body, left school and went home, in protest against new rules about class preparation. Their action constituted the largest student strike at any colonial American college. Pedagogues and Protesters recounts the year in daily journal entries by Stephen Peabody, a member of the class of 1769.
Autorenporträt
Conrad Edick Wright is Worthington C. Ford Editor and Director of Research at the Massachusetts Historical Society. His other publications include Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).