Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacle of more than 15,000 students ascending on Washington last weekend brings behind another demonstration for peace in the season's capital, three years ago. In February, 1962, Harvard's now-defunct peace organization, Tocsin, conceived and led a march of 6000 collegians, urging President Kennedy to continue his moratorium on nuclear testing and to abandon his fallout shelter program. Despite many similarities, however, the two marches differed fundamentally on goals and on means of attained their objectives. These differences illustrate changes which have taken place in the student peace movement in the intervening years. In 1962 Tocsin...
They prepared an eight-page policy pamphlet which spelled out a program of "unilateral initiatives" for a stable peace which would not threaten the nation's deterrent. Couched in modern language, the Tocsin proposals were designed to elicit a meaningful dialogue between the demonstrators and official Washington...
Days before the March, Tocsin leaders were hopeful that their intellectual approach would get results. Some still hoped that they might persuade Kennedy not to resume testing. "Since Eisenhower is out," Goldmark said, "the people there now are the ones we can talk to." He hoped for "a small but noticeable effect," and "to have the ideas of our policy injected with force into public discussions...
...Washington's reaction to this novel student lobby amazed and disappointed the marchers. A few Congressmen reacted almost violently. Sen. John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) refused to see a delegation from the group, and told a CRIMSON reporter that Tocsin had been "carried off by cliches and slogans." He said solutions would come from "clear heads knowing all the facts, not by emotional outbursts." He claimed the demonstration had "questioned the ability of chosen leaders to make calm deliberate decisions." Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) told reporters the marchers were "full of bologna...
...reaction to Dr. Constable's suggestion, that students should no longer be forcefed General Education courses against their will, should remind many of the outcry which was raised in schools and colleges across the country when colleges dropped Latin as a requirement for graduation. We were told that the tocsin had sounded for the classics. Quite the opposite, apparently, has happened. Teachers of Latin have not only learned how to teach Latin, but in many instances have actually mastered their subject. The improving standard of pedagogy has attracted students who actually master the subject themselves. The proponents of mandatory General...