Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University would face reaction from outside groups if one of its Faculties took a formal stand. Carl Friederich, professor of Government, pointed out that the University's status as a tax-exempt organization prohibited it from getting involved in public policy issues. Several other Faculty members said that a vote might bring retribution from Congress or other parts of the government...
...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...
Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, later said that the Faculty could not preserve any "unanimity" by recessing to a convocation. "We stand divided" in the formal meeting, but "we will be as badly divided if we refuse to take stand." he said...
...History will be glad to note that 41 of them actually supported the spirit of the resolution, and only three thought it was a bad idea to take even a personal stand against the war. But the gap between the 230 people who opposed the resolution at the Faculty meeting and the 44 who were left at convocation time hints at a few of the convocation's woes...
Captain Thomas F. Burke, Jr., chief detective of the Cambridge police, said last night that he will begin rendition proceedings today to bring Mann back to Cambridge to stand trial for the CFIA incident. He said that he hopes to have Mann in custoday "by the first part of next week...