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Thirty-one faculty members and students from the Boston area will discuss the Administration's policy in Vietnam at a 12-hour long Boston University teach-in tonight. Among them will be throe members of the Harvard Faculty: Barrington Moor Jr., lecturer on Sociology; Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature; and Mark Mancall, research fellow in East Asian Studies...
Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
Perhaps Mr. Alsop could set American progressivism a better example. In only a few sentences he manages to grossly misrepresent the aims of the teach-in--to inform not denounce--and its effect--the presentation of an intelligent, knowledgeable, many-sided discussion by some of the areas most distinguished professors...
Hughes ran for the U.S. Senate in 1962 on a peace platform. and Howe has been known for his support of civil rights groups. In last Wednesday's "teach-in" at Sanders Theatre, Schwartz was critical of the Johnson administration's policy in Vietnam...
Officials of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, who originally thought of a teach-in at Harvard to rally support for the next Saturday's protest march in Washington, and suggested the idea to faculty members, did not seem disturbed at the non-partisan aspect of Wednesday's meeting. "The straight facts ought to convince people to be on our side," one said...