Word: tocsins
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...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...
...Every seat filled in New Lecture Hall (Lowell to those who don't understand); 1000 reported waiting outside. Tocsin types dash around looking vastly important. A janitor walks up to the microphone, intones "testing, one, two, three." The crowd applauds; one man shouts back "No Testing." Cheers. Marty Peretz walks in and out--some twenty times in five minutes. A small, restive block of freshmen in the balcony brandish furled umbrellas. An air of contained excitement and considerable expectation. The CRIMSON has infiltrated: at least 15 editors scattered throughout the hall. Faint rhythmic applause; let's get something started...
...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...
...Only Tocsin, the University's disarmmament group, indicated substantial opposition to the President's policy. The organization has called for a meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall at 9:45 tonight to "consider alternatives to war over Cuba...
...Tocsin said the meeting will discuss "posible courses of action by which students can protest Kennedy's decision and will suggest constructive alternatives...