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Actually, the Corporation is little more than a rubber stamp for the recommendations of President Pusey and Treasurer Bentinck-Smith. And the latter's proposals are prepared by the team of "experts" in Massachusetts Hall known as the administrators. Of course, the administration cannot make decisions contrary to the interests of the wealthy businessmen who compose the Corporation. So their decisions must allow Harvard to make an ever increasing amount of money above cost. This means Harvard must present a "good image," and, ultimately, that student activity must be kept in line with what is acceptable to that particularly conservative...
...floor of Lamont Library is flooded with them--ranging from dull historical tracts which always end up imitating Samuel Eliot Morrison to mildly funny accounts of what it is like to be a Harvard man. A heavy dose of mediocre anthologies and lousy college novels falls in between. William Bentinck-Smith, a classmate and friend of Kahn's, described the situation accurately more than a decade ago when he wrote: "In almost the same proportion as Harvard men are no different from other men, so are Harvard writers really no better than any other writers...
...William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to President Pusey and the man who makes the decisions on television broadcasts, has repeatedly declined to define exactly what "balance" means. The closest definition he has given of the policy would describe as balanced an event airing both sides of an argument, such as a speech with a question-and-answer period provided...
While the protesters calmly held to their resolve of Thursday night to demonstrate non-obstructively, the men in Massachusetts Hall pushed a new provocation at the crowd outside. William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to President Pusey, evoked an urbane George Wallace as he guarded the door. The parallel may be imprecise, but Bentinck-Smith risked a serious, possibly violent, confrontation by stubbornly refusing to let more than two protesters in. That authoritarian gesture (contrasted with the tolerance Deans Ford and Glimp showed toward the protest) heightened the symbolic remoteness of the highest level of University Administration from students...
...resolution caled Bentinck-Smith's "justification" both irrelevant and false." The HPC, which called last week's teach-in "an important educational experience for those who were able to attend," said that "teach-ins and other meetings have been televised from Lowell on several occasions in the past...