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...central development office orchestrates a system of advising to bolster the poorer schools' fundraising efforts, which will now be headed by William Boardman. The advisors will attempt to enlarge the poorer schools' donor constituencies and provide administrative help, Reardon says...
PERHAPS THIS would not concern anyone if episodes this year did not clearly suggest that the professional administrators have made expediency the end of Harvard policy. Derek Bok nearly sent Harvard interns to all-white South African prep schools and other institutions that bolster apartheid as what administrators called an educational initiative to benefit South Africa's Blacks...
Like their professors who had been snatched wayin 1961 to bolster the Kennedy Administration,some members of the class who headed to Washingtonwere give direct responsibility for pioneering newfrontiers. College years spent on the footballfield and in the library, far away from any civilrights activism, were the end of "Eisenhower-eraapathy" for men like Terry F. Lenzner '61. Hisfirst job out of law school, with the JusticeDepartment, led him to Mississippi to investigatethe murders of three civil rights activists, whichhelped galvanize a growing national indignationabout abuses of Black civil rights. Lenzner wenton to head the national legal service program forthe...
HARVARD HIRED SOUTHERN at a time when Afro-American Studies--instituted in the wake of militant student demands during the late 1960s--was suffering from plummeting student interest and the University's admitted inability to lure scholars to bolster the field...
...time when Harvard could quietly bolster racism and disenfranchisment with its endowment while paying lip-service to ideals of justice and compassion has passed, and we must tell that to President Bok. We must tell him with our voices raised from beneath the tower which overlooks the drawn shades of his office...