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Items relating to Richard Hofstadter's commencement speech at Columbia University, June 1968: (1) statement, issued by student protesters, condemning Hofstadter for his support of the university administration's response to demonstrations on campus; (2) announcement, by the Columbia Strike Committee, of a "counter-commencement" to be held as an alternative to the official, university-sponsored graduation ceremony at which Hofstadter spoke; (3) an image, from The New York Times, depicting students leaving the ceremony just before Hofstadter began to deliver his remarks; (4) program from Columbia University rommencement, with full text of Hofstadter's remarks; and (5) letters to Hofstadter, from the sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the art historian Meyer Schapiro, praising his speech.