Word: leavitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard the reaction to the Pentagon was the Dow sit-in. Three hundred students held a Dow recruiter named Frederick Leavitt inside Malinckrodt M-102 for seven hours, then let him go. As a result, 74 students were placed on probation and the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, a committee of the Faculty, was set up to look into recruiting and other things...
...Leavitt and Pierce. Hunters had to ask for a Royal Jamaica Churchill cigar...
These are the people who make or break a Dow demonstration at Harvard. It was their numbers that blockaded Dow recruiter Fred Leavitt last October three days after Federal troops had driven them off the steps of the Pentagon. This seeming strength of their organization then led some SDS leaders, in their more extravagant moments, to threaten closing down the University. But it is this pivotal group--let's call them the liberal activists--which has recently turned away from SDS, and which probably really didn't believe in them anyway...
Only 6 of the 37 Dudley students put on probation were positively identified within Mallinckrodt. Thirty-one others signed a petition assuming responsibility for "obstructing Dr. Leavitt;" Kerr accepted this as evidence for their presence in the hallway...
Kerr has informed the students by letter that the Ad Board has become "increasingly uneasy with a position which I persuaded them to take, viz., to accept my judgment that certain men had participated in the obstruction of Mr. Leavitt...