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...history and recent decline of Faculty meetings at this University makes a fascinating story, in our lifetime alone, Harvard's professors convened several times to thrash out ethical issues relating to the Vietnam War--including how the University should deal with students in trouble for striking classes and otherwise resisting it. Eventually, early in the Nixon Administration, the Faculty put itself on record opposing the war, among the first university faculties in the nation...
...first time, the freezers and arms controllers are being brought together to thrash this thing out." Fen Hampson, a member of the conference steering committee, said yesterday...
...National Security Adviser William Clark, who told him that Israel had begun a major attack on West Beirut. At a Special Situation Group meeting the next morning headed by Vice President George Bush and at a subsequent National Security Council meeting chaired by Reagan, the Administration tried to thrash out a response. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger argued that subtlety had proved futile in dealing with Israel; sanctions were now necessary. George Shultz, who has kept a notably low profile since he took over as Secretary of State, expressed exasperation with the Israelis, but was reluctant to recommend harsh steps. "Shultz...
...bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...
...Adler gives the other side a chance. "How many of you ever got an A-plus on a composition?" Hands thrash the air. "Do you think your teachers were right?" After considerable debate, the consensus turns out affirmative. Sandy decides to desert the ranks of Position A. "Now, Thomas," says Adler, "you stand alone. But you can still defend yourself. You can say they're talking rot." The discussion goes back to grades. Thomas admits to having received a C. Then Garrick plunges into the fray. He wants to know if Thomas thinks his teacher was "totally subjective...