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...original version of the resolution-presented by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, asked the Faculty to "affirm its support of the October 15 day of protest" and re-affirm its members' right to suspend their classes that...
...strategy succeeded on Mendelsohn's Moratorium motion. Peter B. Doe-ringer, assistant professor of Economics, proposed an amendment, saying that he agreed with the idea of supporting the Moratorium. but that he did not want to involve the Faculty in political debate...
...extraordinary nature of the war makes it an issue on which the Faculty should take an official stand. Mendelsohn and other speakers described the effects of the war on the nation and on Harvard. Marc Roberts '64, assistant professor of Economics, said that "the Faculty must stand for some things." If the war does not present "sufficient moral issues to prompt our action, then such moral issues do not exist." he said...
...vote against the Vietnam war would not drag the Faculty into other political discussions. "Would this set a precedent?" Mendelsohn asked in introducing his resolution. "Perhaps. If there were another war with similar effects, members of the Faculty might again rise to oppose...
...Faculty probably will pass- without extensive opposition- the moratorium resolution, which will be proposed by Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science...