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After President Roosevelt's fireside chat in 1943 when he lowered the draft age to 18 and abolished student deferments, President Conant called for the conversion of Harvard into a war college. According to his plan, Harvard and other Ivy League schools ceased to provide college education altogether and devoted themselves to training local high school graduates for the military...
...functions of a university," Harvard President James B. Conant observed at the opening of the Houghton, "is to act as a guardian of the cultural riches of the past. Our libraries and museums serve only in part our own students and our staff. To a large measure they are of benefit to the much greater world of scholars.... We are the servants of a community that extends far beyond these academic walls -- our responsibilities transcend both the immediate aims of this institution of learning and the days in which we live...
...country's intellectuals are hardly as powerless as many claim to be. The U.S. still heeds the individual social critic who builds a powerful case. Michael Harrington's The Other America, for instance, was a key impetus for the poverty program. Other effective reformers abound-James Bryant Conant, John Gardner, Ralph Nader, Saul Alinsky and Daniel Moynihan, to cite a few. And who ever dreamed that Eugene McCarthy would do so well in the New Hampshire primary...
...Graduate Student Association is accepting applications from those running for graduate student positions on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC). Bring position statements to Conant Hall 3a or call Paul Munyon at 864-5834 or x2155 by 5 p.m. today...
Monday's minority editorial on ROTC continued the unfortunate myth of Harvard's official reverence for academic freedom. A study of the Faculty records after President Conant's resignation, and through Pusey's appointment, shows that three junior Faculty members had their contracts terminated for refusing to testify before the HUAC about assorted Communist connections. (See Jared Israel's "Free Speech at Harvard" in the Progressive Labor Boston News, Fall, 1968, reprinted in the second issue of The Old Mole.) This policy was reaffirmed by Pusey before the SFAC last Spring--though his statement that a member of a communist...