Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Committee of Harvard's Young Republican Club put out a statement denouncing the demonstration. "The actions of SDS are a threat, and a grave one, to the continued existence of Harvard," the YR's said. "It is time that the Administration recognize this fact and act accordingly...
...issue. In President Pusey's words, it is "our Army" It is their army: Mr. Nickerson, president of the board of Socony Mobil, sleeps better at night in the knowledge that his investments in Iran or Venezuela are shielded not just by military dictators, but by the threat or direct armed intervention by the U.S. government...
...correspond to reality." Several times during the meeting he reiterated his position that the current danger to the University was from those within the University who are upset about the war in Vietnam. The SDS demonstration at the beginning of the SFAC meeting was, he said, typical of this threat...
Though a radical, Barrington Moore Jr., lecturer in Sociology, perhaps best expressed much of the liberals' exasperation with the President near the end of the meeting, "Your view, as I understand it, is that the main threat to free inquiry is from students like those who interrupted this meeting today, while at the same time you regard the outside society as benign. You've said you don't regard the military-industrial complex as a danger. In my mind, the priorities are just the opposite...
Chalmers said last night that his motion came as a reaction to the forcible entry of students into last month's closed SFAC meeting. "In response to the clear threat made by SDS spokesmen when they moved into the meeting, it seemed appropriate that the Faculty should make clear that its failure to take action in the past must not be taken as a precedent for the future," Chalmers said. He called the motion "a warning, not a threat...