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...induction after turning in their draft cards at an anti-war demonstration. The two talked to deans and faculty members, who patted them on the back but told them there was nothing the University could do about it all but Good Luck. The Dunster House Senior Common Room lent its sympathy in a weak-kneed petition, defying a rule against such pronouncements. But it meant little. Two Harvard students may well go to jail for their political and moral beliefs while the University, in true laissez-faire fashion, invites the Navv and Colgate Palmolive to recruit more "highly trained young...
...October march on the Pentagon.* During a rally at the Arlington Street Church, Coffin collected draft cards, which he later turned over to the Justice Department; Ferber, who helped in the collection, also spoke on "A Time to Say No," urging draft evasion; Goodman, Raskin and Spock lent their names and efforts to sponsoring a nationwide draft-resistance movement, and were among the 2,000 signatories of a manifesto entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority...
...been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position that seems to us radically inconsistent with the views that he was endorsing only a few weeks ago as a sponsor of the petition of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam...
Delacroix, Motherwell, Ingres, and Whistler are among the painters whose work will be lent to Adams House by the Fogg Art Museum as part of the Museum's new Program of undergraduate activities...
...official explained that although nobody wanted to stop the parade in front of the hotel, it did stop, and the police could not know for sure whether it had been intentional or not. This may have led police to believe their intelligence information was being proved correct and lent credibility to the informant's statement that the marchers planned to storm the hotel...