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...Harvard Corporation in a meeting yesterday morning effectively decided not to change the name of the Charles W. Engelhard Library for Public Affairs although a majority of the students said in a recent Student Assembly poll they support a name change...
...know this is exam period and we're not supposed to be paying attention to anything but our work--but it still surprises me that Corporation member Hugh Calkins expects his latest absurdly anti-democratic and self-contradictory remarks on the Engelhard library question to slip by unnoticed...
...poll results showed that a majority favored renaming the library no matter what, and the people who ran the poll have publicly stated that had the question not been worded so vaguely, the vote in favor of dropping Engelhard's name might well have been higher. Yet Calkins says, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating the majority of students want the name changed and the money returned...
...December 11 open discussion with students. Hugh Calkins '45, Chairman of the Corporations Subcommittee on Shareholder Responsibility, said that if a majority of students wanted the Kennedy School of Government's Engelhard Library of Public Affairs renamed, the question would be put on the Corporation's agenda...
Support for renaming the library--established in memory of the late Charles W. Engelhard, an American businessman who made most of his fortune through mining interests in South Africa--is by no means limited to undergraduates who responded to the survey. Congressman, Kennedy School faculty and students and other administrators have already said the library should be renamed...