Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tocsin sentiment is moving away from the positions and preoccupations of the traditional ban-the-bomb peace groups," Adam M. Hochschild '63, vice-chairman of Tocsin, said last night...
Todd A. Gitlin '63, chairman of the organization, agreed. John H. Ehrenreich '63, secretary, said the Tocsin position had "crystalized" rather than changed. "We are viewing the arms race in a broader context," Ehrenreich said...
Also, the House system supposedly provides centers for specialized extracurricular interest groups. Quincy House, for instance, which is "political" by reputation, has provided a base of operations for leaders of the Young Republicans and Democrats, Tocsin, the Liberal Union and YAF. Centered in a House instead of spread throughout the College, the leaders can discuss their projects at dining tables or in adjacent rooms; they have all the advantages of proximity. The third floor of Quincy has become one of the greatest smoke filled corridors in American politics. And yet, precisely as a result of this concentration, a group like...
...nights a week, the solemn chess-players in the Quincy House Junior Common Room have to decamp to make room for a 15-piece jazz band. This aggregation, known as the Gary Berger Band, demonstrated in its first public recital Saturday night (a benefit affair for Tocsin--"Peace through Jazz"?) that there ought to be more jazz in concert at Harvard...
...Nash has introduced the meeting, pleading for "calm reasonableness." Todd Gitlin, Tocsin's chairman, talks of "Harvard's air of complete isolation." He is interrupted by thunderous knocks on the firmly closed outer doors. The audience giggles happily, but it has calmed down: it is that part of the service where the curate pauses to read a few comfortable parish announcements. Meanwhile the Macbeth-like knocks continue...