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Olly, Winter, an American advisor to a South Vietnamese unit, is a tired man who has been through the Second World War and Korea; he is sick of war, the mud, the jungle, and the killing. Flashbacks paint his past in quick, terse strokes. When he watches the jungle rush beneath his helicopter, be thinks back to a train ride he took with his mother and sister, the countryside slipping by the window; when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: The Last War of Olly Winter | 2/7/1967 | See Source »

...stark alternatives of the Supreme Being question, Harvard CO's take advantage of Seeger's invitation to individualism, often enlisting the help of philosophers and writers to help them express their objections to war. "It's really amazing the people they bring in to support their objection," a draft advisor in the Square marvelled. "I've just recently seen a couple of Lao-tzu types," he added...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: The Conscientious Objector at Harvard: More Are Making the Difficult Decision | 1/17/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard CO's are personal pacifists. "These guys will hit back if someone attacks them," according to an AFSC draft advisor. Although some insist on the absolute sanctity of human life, most believe that even killing is justifiable in some instances. The question is, where does one draw the line on the use of force? At hearings, draft boards pay close attention to the CO's answer to this question and probe for inconsistencies in his position...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: The Conscientious Objector at Harvard: More Are Making the Difficult Decision | 1/17/1967 | See Source »

Austin hoped last month that the program could be vitalized without formal Council action. The Council requested before Thanksgiving that the freshman council members, proctors, and the senior advisor of each of the five units of the Yard meet informally with the associates assigned to their unit to discuss problems of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Council Hopes to Revitalize The Freshman Associates Program | 12/19/1966 | See Source »

...teaching time between straight history and philosophy of science. (He also holds an appointment in the History of Science Department and is chairman of the Committee on Physics and Chemistry, a small department which graduates proportionately more summas than any other in the college.) Holton's Harvard Ph.D. advisor and mentor, Nobel laureate P. W. Bridgman '04, made some of the same combinations. "He showed me that you can be both, that physics can be a basis for philosophy," Holton recalls. Holton's own field is an area of physics which has relatively fewer researchers than nuclear physics...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Gerald Holton: The Discovery That Scientists Are Also Philosophers Should Not Depend On Accidents | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

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