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Brewster returned from a West Indics last Thursday to find student in the midst of a three-day vigil the University Activities Building the Tenure Committee decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewster Affirms Refusal to Grant Disputed Tenure | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

Yale students began a round-the-clock picketing vigil outside president Kingman Brewster Jr.'s office Monday to protest the dismissal of a popular professor in philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yalie Pickets Ask Tenure For Well-Liked Professor | 3/3/1965 | See Source »

...Vigil for Peace in Vietnam, sponsored by the Turn Toward Peace, will take place today from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Boston Common, on the corner of Park and Tremont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Office March Protests Asian War | 2/10/1965 | See Source »

...last, loneliest battle, that defiant vow seemed graven on Sir Winston Churchill's soul. Hour after hour, day after day, the world stood vigil as the medical bulletins became ever more grave. But Churchill fought on with almost unbelievable tenacity. Finally, after days of drifting in and out of consciousness, the old warrior sank into peaceful sleep. The battle was over, the lion heart stilled forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender! | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...students stood in a V formation at one corner of the triangle for 45 minutes holding a sign saying "We support Berkeley Free Speech." The vigil broke up at 4:45 p.m. When the Brandeis bus driver said he wanted to leave "before it starts to sleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berkeley Faculty Bails Out Students | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

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