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Last Friday evening the intended speakers at the Teach-In sponsored by a group which favors an American presence in Southeast Asia were driven from the stage of Sanders Theatre. They were forced to leave by the ceaseless chanting of persons who had come to the teach-in for the explicit purpose of depriving them of an opportunity to speak, and depriving me and others like me of the right to hear them. The attack upon our liberties was carefully planned and organized, and no amount of pleading or remonstration could induce the attackers to desist. They were asked...
Friday night I attended the Counter Teach-in Sanders Theatre. There, not only our University's reputation but its ability to function as a center of free discussion, learning, teaching and research was severely damaged. Freedom of speech is perhaps our most basic liberty and constitutional right, and Friday night a determined and ultimately successful effort was made forcefully to eliminate free speech at Harvard...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counselor to the University, said yesterday that "Harvard's efforts have been set back because of the events last Friday [at the Counter Teach-In]," Steiner said that many of the people involved with the women's center were also involved in last Friday's demonstration...
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and its supporters met privately last night to identify students who allegedly disrupted Friday night's counter teach...
...their action as an attack on academic freedom, here closely interwoven with freedom of speech, a freedom that in any other set of circumstances they would most surely have supported. For the questions which had filled most minds before the hour of the teach-in were those of tactics and political considerations. And, even on that matter, there was serious confusion...