Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrations of campus radicals. But we must not extrapolate from cliches to general feelings of hostility. While radical slogans such as "Dow kills babies," "Boycott Stop and Shop," and "Chase Manhattan advocates white racism" mobilize middle-class sentiment against the Vietnam war, exploitation of the grape workers, and South African apartheid, they are but manifestations of a highly active and vocal minority. The radical cause on campus seeks easy targets, and they are sometimes justified, but to generalize from their criticisms to "all students hate business" is absurd...
...should like to clear up two possible misunderstandings arising from your article of April 30 on the question of African history...
First, I was not one of the "high sources" (nor do I know who was) for the statement that "Harvard turned down in 1953 a Ford Foundation grant to establish an African studies program." I know nothing of this event; at the time I was not even teaching at Harvard...
Second, at its meeting two weeks ago, the history department made no decisions on African history. The meeting was of a purely exploratory character, and the exploration continues. H. Stuart Hughes History Department Chairman
However, Douglas W. Bryant, University librarian, said last night that he knew nothing of a "loose agreement" between the two schools' libraries on Africa books. Bryant pointed out that for the past four years, the Harvard library has employed an African bibliographer