Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty voted, 318-92, to hold the special meeting after hearing an exchange of letters between Dean Ford and Harvard Undergraduate Council President John D. Hanify 71 on the moratorium and a plea from Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, in favor of considering student requests to recognize the action...
...Mendelsohn took exception to Ford's letter-which he viewed as comparing the moratorium to Yom Kippur-and said, "the analogy is not one to Yom Kippur
Later, after his motion for the special Faculty meeting passed, Mendelsohn said he would offer a resolution for "endorsement of a sort" of the moratorium by the Faculty. He said he hoped it would be more than a technical motion allowing students and Faculty to omit classes without penalty, and rather "one which goes to the heart of the matter and addresses the legitimacy of the actions being taken on that...
Supporters of the Moratorium disagreed somewhat on its purpose. According to Mendelsohn, "the general commit...
Several other colleges, including Columbia Rutgers, and Beutley have already cancelled classes for the fifteenth. Mendelsohn said that many other schools are discussing the possibility...