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University officials eventually compromised with protesters by putting a plaque saying that the funds were given in Engelhard’s memory rather than naming the library after Engelhard...
...fight over the dedication of the Engelhard library was not the only development in the protests of the 1978-1979 school year...
...fear that the recognition of Engelhard at this particular time may be interpreted by the South African government and its supporters as an indication of official acceptance—or at least tolerance—of apartheid by major American institutions,” the legislators wrote...
Amid this turmoil over Harvard’s South African investments, the Kennedy School announced it would name its library after Charles W. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial participation in South Africa reputedly supported the apartheid regime. In their protests for divestment, some students denounced the naming of the library after Engelhard...
DIED. JANE ENGELHARD, 86, art lover and grande dame of New York society; in Nantucket, Mass. Along with her phenomenally wealthy husband Charles, she was active in Democratic Party politics and helped Jacqueline Kennedy restore the White House. Her collection included the original presidential proclamation of the Louisiana Purchase. A trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1974 to '81, she also donated to such institutions as the New Jersey Symphony, some years paying the salary of the orchestra...