Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy succeeded on Mendelsohn's Moratorium motion. Peter B. Doe-ringer, assistant professor of Economics, proposed an amendment, saying that he agreed with the idea of supporting the Moratorium. but that he did not want to involve the Faculty in political debate...
...extraordinary nature of the war makes it an issue on which the Faculty should take an official stand. Mendelsohn and other speakers described the effects of the war on the nation and on Harvard. Marc Roberts '64, assistant professor of Economics, said that "the Faculty must stand for some things." If the war does not present "sufficient moral issues to prompt our action, then such moral issues do not exist." he said...
...vote against the Vietnam war would not drag the Faculty into other political discussions. "Would this set a precedent?" Mendelsohn asked in introducing his resolution. "Perhaps. If there were another war with similar effects, members of the Faculty might again rise to oppose...
...answer appears to lie partly in the differing ways in which the proponents of the two "political" resolutions argued their respective cases. Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and others supporting endorsement of the October 15 moratorium spoke a hard line: they urged the Faculty to take an open political stand, and made an inadequate effort to ease the fears of those Faculty members afraid of opening future meetings to a flood of political resolutions having little or no connection with academic affairs...
...attempt to get around the moral and political issues, but an attempt to have the Faculty face those issues," Mendelsohn said of his resolution. Another proponent argued that "Every action we have taken since April has a political content...