Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council also received last night a copy of a letter sent by President Pusey to James A. Reagan, Chief of the Cambridge police force. Pusey thanked the Cambridge police for their assistance on April 9 and 10. He wrote, "this was not an easy decision to make and we appreciate everything you did to minimize injuries...
...James Reston wrote on April 27, 1969, that "concessions made by faculties and administrators at ... Harvard to the use of force by campus militants have convinced officials here [in Washington] that justice is too serious a business to be left to university teachers and officials who submit to use and threat of force." But on the contrary, at the meeting of the Harvard Faculty on April 11, the resolution adopted by a vote of 395 to 13 said: "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deplores the forcible occupation of University Hall on April 9. Responsibility for the events that followed...
...headline to a collection of brief interviews in the Times on April 25 stated that the faculty was "divided." In reality, whatever individual statements obtained by telephone interviews may sound like, such "divisions" have not been reflected in votes. Most faculty actions have shown remarkable unity, and even the action to modify the Afro-American Studies Program was passed by a majority of almost 100 votes. In fact, the cohesion of the faculty has been Harvard's greatest advantage over most other universities in trouble. That would have been the far more important news story...
...front page of The Weeks in Review section of April 27, the following statements appeared: "Campus Turmoil--Faculty Falters in Leadership Role: The student revolt took two significant turns at major universities last week. At Cornell, guns were used for the first time in the seizure of a building. At Harvard, the faculty gave Negro students a voice in selection of black studies professor ... the faculty, under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles. It voted to give students a major voice--six undergraduates to seven professors--in the selection of teachers...
This traditional procedure will still be followed in the case of the Afro-American Rosovsky report and the modification accepted by the faculty on April 22 is not the participation of students in recommending candidates for appointment, but their ability to make recommendations directly to the administration for consideration by the ad hoc committee instead of filtering them through an intermediary faculty committee...