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...relation to Harvard undergraduates. The curious fact was that there was any student activism at all. The previous 18 months had been noticeably quiet; it was hard to imagine what group, or which issue, could enlist sufficient support to mount a large protest. The controversy over the Counter Teach-In in 1971 had only just reached the boiling point; Richard Herrnstein's theory of I.Q. hardly seemed worth risking expulsion by the CRR, except to a few members of Progressive Labor...
...mood of students. Events proved them wrong. And while a similar reversal could occur this Spring, the diffusion of the war as an issue and the low-key approach to current Harvard controversies foretells the Spring which Faculty and administrators have been anticipating for so long: no strike, no teach-in or counter teach-in, no building occupation, perhaps even no need for the tiresome...
...much different from the ones that had come before. True, the crowd was a little older, and bigger than it had been in quite a while. But the same songs were sung, the same speeches given, the same factionalism was present. An anti-war professor once told a Vietnam teach-in that "politics is the art of doing the same thing over and over again until it works." The crowd took him seriously, and why not? There seemed little else...
Fugene Bell, Professor of Biology at MIT and a member of the Peace Coalition, said yesterday that the teach-in is intended to supplement the January 19th Committee's lunch hour demonstration in downtown Boston Friday. He said the Peace Coalition has given monetary support to the January 19th Committee...
...teach-in will be held in the Salida Puerto Rico at the MIT Student Center. It will last from 4 p.m. until midnight...