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...establish a William Cowper Boyden National Scholarship...
Harvard was the original owner of the Boyden Observatory when it was moved, in 1927, from Peru to Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State -- what one South African described as the Mississippi of South Africa. In 1955 a cooperative was formed in which Harvard shared the Observatory with Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium. On July 1, 1966 Harvard transfered its administrative and logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Astro-Physical Observatory which is closely linked with the Harvard Observatory...
Usher may be right, Tillinghaft admitted, "it's an open question, but I don't think that we could play an active role in these matters." Tillinghaft said that although apartheid was a topic of debate at the council of Boyden affiliates, "we have done nothing to try to change South African social policy...
Tillinghaft explained the transfer from the Harvard Observatory to the Smithsonian Observatory was based on pragmatic, not racial reasons. "Even though the Smithsonian interest in the Boyden Observatory is quite light right now, Harvard gave us the administrative and logistic problems because with some 40 observatories all over the world we have a network can handle these problems," he said...
...even if Harvard has transfered its logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Institute, both of them will continue to be represented at policy making meetings of the Boyden council, Tillinghaft said, Harvard has not severed its affiliation with Boyden Observatory through the transfer and will continue to send research teams to the Observatory...