Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon. Peace Celebration led by Professors Mendelsohn, Seltzer, and others. Memorial Church...
...amazing thing is how they could accept our statement and reject a moderate statement supporting the day of protest," Ptashne said. (The Faculty amended the original Moratorium resolution-proposed by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-to say that the Faculty "recognizes that October 15 is a day of protest" rather than "affirms its support of the day of protest...
Ptashne outlined to the crowd of about 100 what he understood to be the basic strategy of the Faculty meeting. "It firstseemed logical that they would either let the Mendelsohn motion through since it was so weak and then recess or else recess immediately," he said. "Instead they amended Mendelsohn's motion so that it was apolitical...
...Then it seemed that they would either amend Mendelsohn's motion and recess or, if the amendment failed, recess immediately," Ptashne continued. "That would have been rational. But what actually happened was that Mendelsohn gave a strong speech, stressing that the Moratorium was a political and moral matter that should be discussed at the meeting. Our opposition panicked...
Unfortunately, the sloppy manner in which the Faculty handled the vote on the anti-war resolution guaranteed that its "public stand" would have the minimum effect. And its defeat of the Mendelsohn resolution on the Vietnam Moratorium was an inexcusable rejection of a relatively non-controversial motion...