However the Faculty overwhelmingly defeated, 215-36, a motion by Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, supporting the three demands voted on Monday by striking students.

The meeting tabled a final motion- by Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Nadav Safran, professor of Government- that a committee be appointed to arrange a two-week recess next Fall before the November elections in order that students could work for peace candidates.

Honor System Defeated

A proposal by Dean May putting all exams on the honor system, to be completed and returned by October 1, was eliminated in a straw vote during the first 45 minutes, when the Faculty met as a committee of the whole.

During this time 17 proposals were voted on. The Faculty then recessed for 15 minutes, and reconvened formally.

Quoting from the CRR resolution that the "central functions of the University are learning, teaching, research, and scholarship," Stephen A. Schuker, assistant professor of History, urged that all students opting out of exams this Spring "be requested to return home in 72 hours."

He was defeated during the straw vote.

"The notion that students should be able to concentrate in a time of crisis is a failure of imagination, and ultimately a failure of introspection," said Edwin E. Moise, Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics.

"These students do not deserve to be tolerated, to be excused," Moise continued. "They deserve our admiration, and they certainly have mine."

"It is almost impossible for any of us to do any intellectual activity," Alan Heimert, Master of Eliot House, said at the meeting. "The blame must be placed on this war which has poisoned the intellectual atmosphere."

Speaking against the Bloch proposal, David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said, "This would be a disservice to the students, the University, and the anti-war movement."

"The famine in which we all live will last a long time," Riesman said. "To burn the seed corn is a mistake."