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...Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the tabling motion, said that the Faculty, as a collective body, should not take a position "on a matter of abstract principle, in either educational, social or political policy." To raise the issue of the draft again this year would require a majority vote to take the original anti-2-S resolution from the table...
Tuesday's meeting left a residue of resentment and dissatisfaction. After the meeting had adjourned, a number of Faculty members milled around inside University Hall discussing the issue. Many appeared unhappy. The swiftness of the Handlin motion, Dean Ford and President Pusey said yesterday, surprised almost all Faculty members, even those who expected that the 2-S resolution would eventually be tabled...
Hoffmann attributed Handlin's tabling motion to an "honest feeling that the Faculty would be split wide open." But, he continued "the resentment that [Tuesday's meeting] leaves behind is fan greater than if we had had a candid discussion...
...Handlin could not be reached for further comment last night, but David S. Landes, professor of History, who seconded Handlin's motion, said that the purpose of tabling was not only to forestall the Faculty from taking a position but also to prevent a debate...
Among those from Harvard signing the endorsement were: professors Archibald Cox, Merle Fainsod, Paul Freund, Oscar Handlin, Abram M. Chayes, Frank B. Freidal, George Homans and Adam Yarmolinsky...