Word: belknap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's student power came mostly from nearby Eastern Seaboard schools-Harvard, Radcliffe, Yale, Smith, Columbia, Barnard and such lesser-known institutions as Dunbarton, Belknap and Rivier-though some of his supporters arrived by Greyhound or jalopy from points as distant as Duke and the University of Michigan. All were soberly antiwar and anti-L.B.J. Many had demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that...
...John Harvard Library was established by the Belknap Press of the University Press in 1955 to make important but inaccessible documents of American cultural history generally available. The collection includes such works as Frederick Hawkins Piercy's Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley and Isaac Ray's A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity...
With this legacy, part of it consisting of as yet unvalued Texas oil lands, the Press set up "the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press." Under its aegis are published the John Harvard Library, including such American fiction of historical interest as Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Adams Papers, which President Kennedy called "a major feat in American historical scholarship...
When the full extent of Belknap's endowment became known, the Press began using the Belknap imprint for more than Americana. Now a quarter of the books the Press publishes are awarded the imprint in recognition of their superiority. Recent Belknap books include Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 and John K. Fairbank's China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A...
Harvard was one of the first university presses to end the practice of requiring authors to subsidize unsaleable works. About the time that the Belknap fund was established the Press stopped the "bad and dangerous thing" which had occasionally been "allowed to affect the decision on publishing," in the director's words...