Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparation for the summer's expedition, the Brigade has urged that a training program be set up by volunteers in their own localities. Berkeley's group, which according to Duke numbers about 20 active members, features rock climbing, parachuting, horse riding, marksmanship, judo, and demolition...
...finances for the trip to, and possibly from, Tibet, Duke says that the Brigade "does not yet have sufficient funds to send over a large group." It is hoped that volunteers will be able to provide themselves with arms and passage to either Calcutta or Formosa. The Brigade will give them the names of "contacts" at these places to guide them to the hitherto undetermined mustering point...
Plans call for a small "contact group" to depart for the Far East soon in order to rendezvous with "cetain persons" and investigate the possibilities of crossing the Tibetan border and collecting arms stores...
Bunche's nomination for high University office however, is just the latest in a series of issues raised by the Veritas group and its supporters. In 1956, when the Harvard Cooperation invited physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to deliver the William James Lectures on Science and Philosophy, five Bostonians organized the original Veritas Committee--the Foundation's ideological godfather...
...failed to block the lectures, this campaign was not without its effects. The Harvard Administration was quite thoroughly alienated by what it considered a vindictive and useless attack. Edwin Ginn '18, an agent of the Harvard Fund, dramatically resigned his post in protest against Oppenheimer's appointment. A group of undergraduates revived a small organization called the Harvard Athenaeum in support of Veritas and later the Committee gave financial support to the conservative review Fortnightly...