Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost 1000 students signed a petition yesterday demanding a college-wide referendum on Harvard's plan to send grade rankings to local draft boards.
David M. Forman '69, one of the leaders of the ad hoc committee which or ganized the petition drive, said last night that the response was "very encouraging."
The committee, which collected signatures outside House dining halls and the Union, hopes to get up to 2000 signatures by tomorrow night. It will then submit the petition to the Administration.
The scene was worthy of Goya. Out of Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral marched a procession of 120 angry, black-robed priests bearing a petition that preached against the government. From the other direction charged a crowd of grises-the grey-clad, club-swinging cops who maintain order...
But last September it appeared that things might be different. White House influence had secured the 218 signatures for a discharge petition. Home rule advocates, who had learned from years of experience to expect nothing allowed themselves to become hopeful. They had always been convinced that, once the bill got...