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While 100,000 people marched to the Boston Common, Harvard administrators and Faculty members passed the Moratorium day in a variety of ways. Some held classes; others called them off. Some joined the marches, spoke on panels, or handed out leaflets, while others put in a normal working day.
The following list tells what most of Harvard's administrators and a few of its Faculty members did yesterday:
PRESIDENT PUSEY spent all day working in his office. Pusey said that as far as he knew, the whole Massachusetts Hall staff was at work yesterday.
DEAN FORD went to one Moratorium service and made two office calls that could not be changed. Ford said that his staff members were "in and out" during the day, many of them attending some service.
MRS. MARY I. BUNTING, president of Radcliffe, also spent part of the day at work and part in Moratorium activities.
DEAN MAY was in Widener yesterday doing academic work, Before he left, May told his staff that any of them were free to participate in the Moratorium. May's secretary, Mrs. Nancy Deptula, used part of the afternoon to write letters to Congressmen about the war.
DR. ROBERT H. EBERT, Dean of the Medical School, was on a street corner in downtown Boston for three hours handing out postcards with a group of anti-war doctors. Ebert said that a large number of Med School faculty and students helped give out the postcards, which ask President Nixon to withdraw American troops. By the end of the day, the doctors had handed out more than 100,000 cards.
HUGH D. CALKINS '45, youngest Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, went to work at his Cleveland law office. Calkins-who is in the middle of a campaign for re-election to the Cleveland school board-did not join any formal Moratorium programs yesterday. But last week he helped draw up a plan to let each Cleveland school principal decide whether his school should observe the Moratorium.
DEREK C. BOK, Dean of the Law School, joined a panel in his home town. Belmont, to discuss the Moratorium, the draft, and questions of legitimate dissent. Bok spent the morning preparing for the three-hour panel session in the afternoon. Then he returned to the Law School to meet with his regular 4-6 p.m. class. At the request of his students-half of whom wanted the normal class to go on, and half wanting to join the Moratorium-Bok agreed to hold a class yester-day and a special make-up class next week.
THEODORE R. SIZER, Dean of the Grad. School of Education, led yesterday's morning prayers in Memorial Church in the form of a Quaker meeting. Sizer spent the rest of the day following his regular office schedule.
GEORGE P. BAKER, Dean of the Business School, worked in his office. Baker said that the Moratorium had little effect on the Business School and that most classes there went on as planned.
ROBERT DORFMAN, professor of Economics and organizer of one of the groups that opposed a formal Faculty vote on the Moratorium, canceled two of his classes. Dorfman went to the Cambridge Common to hear speeches there and then marched with the crowd part of the way to M.I.T. He said the line of people leaving the Square was "one of the most impressive things I've ever seen."
MICHAEL WALZER, professor of Government, and leader of the Faculty's liberal caucus, marched with his family all the way from the Cambridge Common to the rally on the Boston Common.
ROBERT LEE WOLFF, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the Faculty's conservative caucus, held his regular class. Slightly more than half his students attended. Wolff said that "if I stopped lecturing every time I was full of moral outrage, would not lecture at all, because I'm full of moral outrage every day."
STANLEY HOFFMANN, professor of Government who is in Cambridge even though on sabbatical, was part of a program at Wellesley on Tuesday night. Hoffmann was one of four panelists-including the wife of Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy-who talked with a large audience about the war and the Moratorium.
ROBERT BOWIE, professor of Government and director of the Center for International Affairs, did his work at home. His secretary, Miss Sally Cox, said that the Center operated "at about 10 percent efficiency" yesterday, with only a third of the 35 people with offices in the building coming in to work. Of those who came, about half stayed the full day, Miss Cox said.
ADAM YARMOLINSKY, professor of Law, gave the major address at a special program at Concord Academy. He said that "the only course left to us is to get out" of Vietnam, and that the money being used in the war should be spent at home.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, spoke at several rallies. Though Galbraith continued to attack President Nixon's Vietnam policy, he cautioned against demands for immediate withdrawal.
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