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...make the Columbia manifesto any less a victory for anti-Vietnam war forces. And when a college of Columbia's stature joins the no-rank club, there is a good chance that it may initiate a snowball effect. The argument presented at Harvard, and elsewhere, that faculties should refrain from concerted action, is in no logical way weakened as more schools refuse to release ranks--just because everyone is doing it does not make it right. But the argument, logical to the end, might simply fade away
...equally frequent refrain is "the American commitment," as he calls it. "The basic American commitment is not to affluence, not to power, not to all the marvelously cushioned comforts of a well-fed nation, but to the liberation of the human spirit, the release of human potential, the enhancement of individual dignity," he says. "We decided that what we really wanted was a society designed for people." And within that society, there must be room for diverse talents. In his book Excellence, he wrote: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness...
...surprisingly, when the first bands of Red Guards approached the assembly lines last fall, with their little, red pocket versions of Mao's works, some ugly clashes took place. Chou Enlai, always the mediator, stepped in and decreed that Red Guards were henceforth to refrain from interfering in industrial production or farming methods. But at the same time, Lin made plain to the Red Guards that the retreat was only temporary so far as Mao's grand scheme was concerned...
...Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, and Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, have collected the signatures of over 5000 scientists in support of a letter to Johnson asking him to stop using these weapons in Vietnam, and to "categorically declare the intention of the U.S. to refrain from initiating the use" of them in the future...
...know about shooting rubber-tipped arrows from his bow, and expecting him never to try a steel-tipped shaft. Meselson would say that the rubber-tipped arrows are nice, but the steel-tipped ones are more horrible than anything now known. Can you expect a boy to refrain from experimenting, just once...