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...Putnam had spoken briefly in support of the sit-in at Mallinckrodt on Wednesday...
...years. But their frustration has now reached a pitch of militancy verging on panic--or revolution. "This war is such a wretched extremity that almost anything is justified," said a sympathetic Faculty member. "I think it would have been right to take the Pentagon apart stone by stone," Hillary Putnam, professor of Philoosphy, added. "The war continues unabated although millions of Americans are now against it. Because of the undemocratic nature of our society, there is nothing we can do but take things into our own hands to end it," Michael Ansara '68 said...
Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, demanded yesterday that all persons who implicated themselves in Wednesday's sit-in receive equal punishment if any punishment is to be meted...
...Putnam said at a rally in Harvard Yard, "If there is to be any punishment, I ask to be included in that punishment." Putnam told a crowd of 500 that he demanded equal punishment for all even though he thought the sit-in tactic a mistake, and one not democratically arrived at. (The sit-in idea had been turned down at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting Tuesday night...
...Putnam said in an interview last night that his statement at the rally did not mean he would withdraw from Harfor a year if just some students were severed. He did say that he thought punishing just a few was impossible to accomplish fairly, and that it betrayed the wishes of all who handed in bursar's cards in sympathy...