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...editorial May 23 ("A Protest That Worked") the Crimson took satisfaction in the outcome of the fight over the Kennedy School's library. The editorial praised the students who campaigned against naming the library for Charles W. Engelhard. It complimented the administrators at the Kennedy School for heeding protests of the Harvard community...
AFTER A YEAR OF PROTEST, University officials have agreed not to name the Kennedy School of Government's Library after Charles W. Engelhard. The students who raised the issue and sustained the organized opposition to the naming of the library are in large part responsible for provoking the administration's decision. We commend those students for their initiative...
Despite President Bok's recent statement on gift policy, the administration's agreement, which allows a plaque in the library to acknowledge that the funds were given in Engelhard's memory, shows that it is possible to use moral criteria without embarrassing or compromising the University. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial participation in South Africa directly supported the apartheid regime, is hardly an appropriate figure for memorialization by a school of public policy. The administrators at the Kennedy School who accepted the compromise worked out by its committee on gifts showed a concern for moral responsibilities...
...Engelhard Foundation's willingness to drop the Engelhard name from the KSG library demonstrates that it is not the name but the thought that counts--the kind of thinking that places like the library make possible is vital to the interests of Harvard's wealthy backers...
...have certain obligations as a guest in a country in which you do business," Engelhard told a New Jersey audience in 1966. "One of these obligations consists of not criticizing what they do at home," he added...