Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedication, Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, said a protester would be allowed to speak if the demonstrators "respected the dedication." Before the ceremony, Allison claimed the students had agreed to be "non-disruptive" in return for the right to have one of their representatives address the audience...
Kennedy's speech elicited a standing ovation, but the talk of the luncheon that followed the ceremony seemed to the Smith's address. He called the naming of the school's library for Engelhard "a travesty and a damn shame," and claimed the late businessman is a symbol of U.S. support of the apartheid regime...
...administration), they had no assurance that the audience would stay after the ceremony to hear our speaker, no assurance that some last-minute change in the University's conception of this imaginary agreement would not prevent our speaker from being heard--and when Bok stepped up to deliver his address on "Excellence in Government" they reacted accordingly...
...here we want to re-emphasize the importance of Bok's role as the man who can make or break the moral standing of his administration. In his 1978 Commencement Address, he said, "We have to demonstrate that we can recognize moral problems without waiting until students press the issues upon us. We have to open ourselves to discussion and disagreement even to the point of being willing to change our minds." If the Harvard administration continues to ignore moral problems and if students continue to press the issues on the administration in increasingly forceful ways, then...
...dedication ceremony also displayed the callous disregard of opposing viewpoints to which many members of the University community have become accustomed of late. President Bok, in his refusal to address or even recognize the existence of the peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say -- including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed -- reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp...