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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...
...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...
...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...