Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John H. Mansfield '51, professor of Law, said last night that persons who are morally opposed to the Vietnam war -- but not "to war in any form" -- were unlikely to receive exemption from military service, even if their cases were to reach the Supreme Court...
...Mansfield made the statement during a Faculty Forum panel discussion in Winthrop Junior Common Room examining "Vietnam, Conscience, and the Draft...
...There is a limit to the amount of moral values the Constitution can absorb," Mansfield asserted. "The idea 'hat one's conscience can never be overruled negates the idea of government...
...Obviously," Mansfield commented, "the law is way out of its depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's favor specifically refused to commit the court to exempting an atheist pacifist...
Frank Hagherty, Doug Mansfield, and Bruce Brandhorst swept the first three places for Lowell. Dieter Wahl of Kirkland and Neil Houston of Quincy finished fourth and fifth. But Lowell would not be put off, and placed scorers in sixth and tenth, also. The winning time or the course, informally gauged at two miles...