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...Harvard, are strongly opposed to the bill and have been successful in securing a conditional amendment exempting universities from the law for 15 years after the bill's passage. Crimson reporter Lavea Brachman interviewed Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, last week and conducted a roundtable discussion with Morton Bloomfield. Porter Professor of English; James J. Culliton, assistant to the vice president at MIT; and Dr. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, a strong proponent of the bill and former secretary of elder affairs under former Gov. Edward J. King. They discussed the bill's implications for universities...
Crimson: Professor Bloomfield, how do you feel about mandatory retirement for professors...
...Bloomfield: I do feel that elminating mandatory retirement hinders opportunities for promotion and advancement, for very many people. I'm inclined to think that some kind of special arrangement could be made for people over 70 to be allowable for you to continue. That I believe. Why not ask for some of these people who are still in good shape and want to continue to teach say one course of the year. Perhaps they also wouldn't want to be paid. But Rosovsky is very much afraid of it. It is discrimination in some sense...
...Bloomfield: I think it's a very good idea to allow those who can to go on teaching...
...take a middle position. It is discrimination, but I can think of more serious types of discrimination.' --Morton Bloomfield...