Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where Tocsin was basically a study and discussion group dedicated to a single issue--disarmament--Students for a Democratic Society is activist, delving into a wide spectrum of problems, of which peace is only...
...rise of SDS in the same year that Tocsin is quietly being laid to rest is no coincidence, for the new organization marks a fundamental change in the philosophy of Harvard's Left...
...David M. Kotz '65, vice chairman of Tocsin and acting president of SDS, put it, "We found that peace can't be won by studying the arms race, and all the student activists were drawn away into civil rights. While the arms race and disarmament negotiations are important, unfortunately they aren't very interesting...
Finding its single-issue approach too narrow last spring, Tocsin amended constitution to include problems of economics and civil rights. But it was still basically a peace group, and its member's interests had outgrown Tocsin's boundaries. When Anthony Graham-White '65, Tocsin president wrote to its other three officers this summer, for example, two of his letters were directed to Meridian, Miss., and the third went to a community project in Chester...
Thus, in a meeting next week, Tocsin's executive committee will propose to its members that when SDS receives University recognition at the end of October, the peace group dissolve, bequeathing to the new organization its mimeograph machine, its bankroll, and H. Stuart Hughes, its faculty advisor...