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Adam Hochschild '63, a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, began his activist career in Harvard's Tocsin organization, which pushed for an atmospheric test ban treaty and organized the first national march on Washington against nuclear weapons. Hochschild later worked for civil rights in 1964, campaigned for McGovern in 1972 and demonstrated against the Vietnam...
...Tocsin owed its existence to the Kennedy years," Hochschild says. "His being there unleashed a lot of stuff like this. He appeared to promise a lot. His Harvard connections fed the illusion that as Harvard students we had some specific influence in Washington...
Todd Gitlin '63, former president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), professor of sociology at UC/Berkeley and author of The '60s: Days of Hope, Days of Rage (1987), launched into a nostalgic journey back to his days at Harvard, remembering his involvement with Tocsin, a student anti-nuclear group founded in the winter of 1962, and the way in which it affected the rest of his life...
...been political in high school, nor in my freshman year. In the fall of '60 I was initiated into Tocsin. There was a real tidal shift in that fall. I had a group of about seven or eight friends and none were interested in politics...
...latter (which are, as was intended, the elite amongst college dorms) were conceived and constructed by President Lowell in part to break the power of the Clubs. He succeeded and, in the present era, many students become aware of the Clubs only when those who resent Clubbies sound the tocsin...