Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this impatience strong enough to tolerate prolonged campus disruption, to survive backlash from a "peace without honor," and permit the advocates of withdrawal in Vietnam to become the architects of a new society at home? A negative majority has been emerging in opposition to the war. Whether it will take a positive character and elect more Michael Harringtons remains undetermined...
Opponents of both the anti-war and the Moratorium resolutions argued that the Faculty should not take corporate stands on matters of national political policy...
...political control of the University and political criteria in the choice of Faculty members. Angelika E. Laiou of the History Department said that the Faculty's academic freedom would be endangered, both by political struggles inside the University and by outside groups that would pressure the Faculty to take other political stands...
...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...
...feel that, though we disagree among ourselves on many current issues, including the war, we should restate the reasons for this resistance. None of these arguments touch on the right of any member of the Faculty, acting individually or as part of a group of colleagues, to take action in support of political objectives...