Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixty draft cards, at least eight belonging to Harvard students, were refused yesterday by two assistant deputy federal attorneys after a delegation from the New England Resistance tried to turn them in as a protest against the Vietnam war and the Selective Service...
...Advisory Council is the direct outgrowth of the Dow protest and the issues which that demonstration raised. By denying the probationed protestors the privilege to seek election to the Council, the Administration would undercut the Council's purpose and spirit. A wise solution would be for the Administrative Board to end probation for the demonstrators at midyear. Then the activists would have a fair chance to seek election, no regulations would be violated, and the probation would still have its deterrent effect. But even if the Board does not shorten the term of probation, the purpose and potential importance...
...Dunster defense toughened and stopped the touchdown threat. With the victory, Dunster clinched sixth place and will travel to Yale next Friday with Leverett, Eliot, Quincy, Kirkland and Winthrop. Floyd S. Wilson, director of Intramural Athletics, added some end-of-season suspense to the league by upholding Winthrop's protest of its November 6 game against Leverett. With a minute and a half remaining in the game. Winthrop, trailing 6-0, had a third down on the Leverett two yard-line. When the referee called an illegal procedure penalty on Winthrop, a dispute broke out and the game was never...
Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, made the original proposal for the Advisory Council in the aftermath of the Dow demonstration. Hoffmann specified that such a committee should take up three questions: campus recruitment, the relation of Harvard to the Vietnam war, and agreed-upon forms of protest...
...tried to avoid the concept of the university's complicity in the war. If indeed I did not succeed, it shows how easy it is to fall into rhetorical grooves even when one does not want to. But while the demonstration was conceived of and acted out as a protest against the war, it has,--and in no small measure because of the response of many Faculty and administration--now been turned into a dispute about Harvard's relationship with the outside world. This, however, is a far cry from complicity with the government's wretched Vietnam adventure...