Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regional committees, similar to the Boston Committee which coordinated the efforts of area colleges, will be advocated for other parts of the country. In the face of present shifts in the affiliations of some of the other student peace movements. Tocsin decided to recommend that all groups keep their individual autonomy, joining only in fairly loose regional committees...
...Tocsin last night considered suggestions for its future status, ranging from an exclusively Harvard elitist group to a nationwide third political party, Members decided finally to retain the organizational relationships formed for Project Washington...
Members showed approval of proposals that Tocsin continue to work with the other groups while maintaining its own intellectual approach (and implicitly the leadership it exercised in Project Washington), and also encourage the growth and strengthening of these other student groups. "We should bring them up to our level," said one member, illustrating what a later speaker called Tocsin's "superiority complex to the rest of the world...
...explosive conference ended with Tocsin members "angry, insulted, and shocked...
Meanwhile, Tocsin distributed about 150 blue armbands at Harvard and Radcliffe yesterday. Robert A. Sable '63, chairman of the project, called the response "fair...