Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty members and 21 students (six graduates, eight upperclassmen, three freshmen, and four from Radcliffe), on the advisory council were brought together to take positions on student protest, University recruiting policies, and Harvard neutrality...
Last week, the Council, by a vote of 25 to 6, asked the Administration to postpone the February 23 recruiting visit of the Dow Chemical Corporation. But again the Council made no claim at having discussed the larger issues involved--recruiting policies or the "rights and modalities of student protest." The Council asked for the postponement until its members had had a chance to reach "common positions" on such issues...
Clearly, no one who conscientiously participates in any form of anti-war protest should be discouraged from doing so. He should, however, realize that his energies and attention have been diverted from a more productive course of action...
This is a gross underestimation of the depth of anti-war feeling at Harvard and a revealing portrait of the lack of anti-war leadership here. Students can be mobilized into effective action when they are presented with effective means of protest. The Dow demonstration showed that students do not need the artificial hardship of a fast to arouse their political awareness...
...Harvard fast-in protest of the war in Vietnam began yesterday, with the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, of United Ministry, claiming that President Johnson and President Pusey should be fasting...