Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These were the main arguments being discussed following the Mather House meeting. Two things were necessary for either of the coed proposals to succed. One was a general agreement on the desirability of coed living. The second was an organized group to urge action on the proposals. But both of these were missing in the presentation of the student plans for coed living at Mather; their absence led to the death of the proposals...
Although the group locked and barricaded the building from the inside, May. Archibald Cox professor of Law and L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, were later allowed to enter for discussions of the blacks' demands. The blacks left the building after reaching a tentative four-point agreement with Cox, who was acting as the University's representative, covering several aspects of the dispute over Harvard's hiring practices...
...Harvard will be accused not only of being racist but also of breaking its word. To remove this possibility, whatever percentage is agreed upon should be accepted by both parties only as a desirable goal; failure to achieve the goal would not, by itself, indicate a rupture of the agreement...
Ideally the compliance officer would do more than simply monitor the agreement; he would also actively work to iron out problems arising in the implementation of the agreement. And problems-serious ones-will inevitably arise. Any appreciable increase in black employment on construction here cannot come from University action alone, but only as a result of continual and complex bargaining among Harvard, white contractors and sub-contractors, black sub-contractors, and white unions...
...They also said that they disagreed with some of OBU's tactics, specifically the agreement to negotiate with the University through the implementation committee...