April Third Movement

Unsigned notes taken at an open forum held at Tresidder Memorial Union, May 29, 1968, where Lyman responded to questions.

“For moderate students, the charm of all-out confrontation will diminish over time,” Provost Lyman predicted at an annual conference of alumni. Stanford University Press Release, September 25, 1969.

Prepared remarks to Law School Board of Visitors, Stanford University, presented at Rickey’s Hyatt House, Palo Alto, April 16, 1970 by Richard Lyman, Vice President and Provost.

“Today’s radicals who believe destruction is the only way to save the world are ignoring history …” according to Lyman “an historian himself.” Stanford University Press Release, April 16, 1970.

“Provost Richard W. Lyman will become acting president of Stanford University on a full time basis, effective Sept. 1 …” Stanford University Press Release, June 26, 1970

Stanford’s new acting President promises to strengthen the university’s peace-keeping machinery when he returns from a month’s vacation. Palo Alto Times, July 4, 1970.

“Universities will survive only if their leaders keep them independent of politics …” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, August 12, 1970.

“Richard W. Lyman, a 46 year old historian, today was named Stanford’s seventh president.” Background and biographical information included. Stanford University Press Release, September 24, 1970

Lyman sharply criticized “academic apologists for violence” in his first major speech since becoming president of Stanford. Stanford University Press Release, September 25, 1970.

Lyman “drew a sharp distinction between police efforts to deal with outright criminal activity on campus and investigations with overtones of thought control.” Report of Lyman’s first news conference as President of Stanford. Stanford University Press Release, September 25, 1970.

Notes taken by Bob Beyers on Lyman interview with Barry Hillenbren of Time Magazine, September 30, 1970.

Bob Beyers’s selective transcription of an October 1, 1970 radio interview with Lyman.

“Attacks from the New Left, Old Right, and all those who believe politics is ‘dirty’ may be ‘very seriously affecting’ America’s potential for constructive and lasting political change” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, October 5, 1970.

“Universities are ‘at last aroused’ to both internal and external threats to their existence” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, October 9, 1970.

“Growing numbers of faculty and students, uneasy and unhappy with world conditions, ‘are nevertheless coming to see the pointlessness of destroying the university in order to save it,’” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, December 14, 1970.

“The ‘revolt against reason’ can have ‘infinitely more ominous’ consequences now than ever before in man’s history …,” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, January 22, 1971.

“If the war in Southeast Asia could be ended by the anguished cries of university presidents it would no doubt have been over long ago.…” Lyman’s Letter to the Editor, New York Times, written February 11, 1971; printed February 19, 1971.

“The prolonged duration of the Vietnam War threatens democracy in a deadly fashion,” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, February 19, 1971, based on Lyman’s letter to the New York Times.

Speaking as a private citizen, Lyman said, “only by setting ourselves a definite target date for total withdrawal from Southeast Asia—B-52s as well as infantrymen—can we extradite ourselves from this tragedy.” Stanford University Press Release, February 22, 1971.

“Terrorism tends to be the tactic taken by a protest movement that does not have a mass following,” according to Lyman. Stanford University Press Release, April 26, 1971.

Letters (November 11, 1976 and December 24, 1976) to Lenny Siegel in response to his Grapevine (November and December, 1976) articles.