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Those two factors caused some problems for Harvard in the spring and summer of 1934, a six-month span when "Hanfy" became as much a red flag on campus as "Engelhard" is today. The furor didn't end until September 24 1934, when the President and Fellows of Harvard University voted not to accept $1,000 from Hanfstaengl, a sum that he had hoped would be used to fund a travelling scholarship to bear his name...
Preeminent among the issues on the referendum ballot is the question of re-naming the Engelhard Public Affairs Library at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. While few undergraduates now use the library, it is crucial that they express their distaste for the school's decision to accept a gift from the Charles W. Engelhard Foundation and then honor Engelhard by naming its library after him. Because Engelhard made his fortune by exploiting the labor of South African blacks in gold mines, it seems inappropriate that a library in a school training future public servants should bear his name...
...rejecting the Kennedy School student body's petition calling of rthe re-naming of the Engelhard public Affairs Library, Dean Graham Allison has affronted not only his own students but also all those concerned with the fight for freedom in South Africa...
...protests against Harvard's investments and the Engelhard library have received continuous press coverage in South Africa. If Harvard were to put its money where its mouth is and support divestiture and re-name the library, the psychological effects of these and similar acts by unions, churches, and universities would reverberate throughout the corridors of power in Johannesburg. With such a change in the American political climate, the South African fear of economic sacntions would be a concrete reality...
Dean Allison also contends that rejecting the Engelhard gift would threaten the "independent pursuit of learning" at the Kennedy School. His full statement reveals, however, the fundamental truth--Dean Allison believes that the well-being of Harvard University is dependent on contributions frequently earned in immoral ways. One does not have to be a university professor of semantics to recognize the blatant contradiction in Dean Allison's remark...