Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to make it absolutely clear that Tocsin was in no way connected with the plans for a vigil protesting nuclear tests in the Yard on Wednesday, Nov.1. Tocsin neither organized nor intended to sponsor such a vigil...
Your article on the front page of Wednesday's CRIMSON states that Tocsin had organized a vigil, but that Dean Watson's office had "denied them permission." Both these statements are inaccurate. If your reporter had bothered to check either with Dean Watson's office or with an officer of Tocsin to get the facts this mistake would not have occurred. Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. '62, Chairman, TOCSIN...
...other protest activity yesterday, over 1000 students at the University of California staged a 24-hour vigil, while in 20 cities, mothers and children carried on a full day of urging the citizenry to write President Kennedy expressing their opposition to nuclear tests...
...Tocsin "yard vigil" protesting U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests has been canceled because of Administration objections...
During the proposed vigil, the Harvard group plans to sit quietly in the Yard, answering questions and distributing leaflets, while their Brandeis counter-parts take to the Waltham streets in a similar effort urging housewives, students, and other interested citizens to write letters of protest to Congressmen and to government officials of both the Soviet Union and the United States...