Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNDER ALMOST any circumstances, a formal vote by the Harvard Faculty against the Vietnam war would offer some help to anti-war efforts. And-as the press coverage yesterday and today has shown-the votes at Tuesday's Faculty meeting did attract some national interest. President Nixon may say he doesn't care, but he and the rest of the newspaper-reading public now know that a prestigious group has taken a public stand...
...series of votes on the anti-war resolution showed mainly how easily the Faculty can lose its legislative way. For some unexplained reason, the 268 votes that joined to amend the Moratorium resolution couldn't get together to call a recess-the obvious strategy for avoiding a formal vote. And when they finally faced a vote, the opponents seemed to have no ready plan for voting or abstaining...
...formal Faculty vote would be the most effective way to make anti-war sentiment felt. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics, said that there was a "terrible difference between laid special emphasis on the unique nation." Both would "do the same thing, but speaking as a Faculty or as a convoca-the second would be much weaker than the first...
Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, later said that the Faculty could not preserve any "unanimity" by recessing to a convocation. "We stand divided" in the formal meeting, but "we will be as badly divided if we refuse to take stand." he said...
...Faculty meeting, the convocation's organizers found themselves clinging to an idea whosetime had suddenly passed. The convocation-the long-planned alternative to a formal Faculty vote on the war resolution-had its Parliamentary legs swept away when the war vote passed...