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Most conspicuous in his absence from the Board was Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of Afro and long-time advocate of a formal juncture between his department and the institute...
...There are year-round celebrities, like James Taylor, Carly Simon, and James Cagney, but these keep a lower profile than the brash intruders like Frank Sinatra--who arrives annually in yachts 100 feet long and longer. And there are intellectuals to provide some sophistication, ranging from Doris Kearns to Ewart Guinier '33, from Rev. Harvey Cox to Roger Baldwin...
Leonard's plan for the DuBois Institute stipulates no formal connection between the Afro Department and the research center. Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of Afro, and a student-faculty coalition insisted last spring that a formal structural connection is necessary for both black studies facilities to thrive. The Afro Department, they claimed, needs the institute's resources to support the continuing education of its undergraduate concentrators. The proponents of a formal alliance between DuBois and Afro also argued that the department, which only has one tenured professor teaching in it, would be in a better position to attract new faculty...
...Ewart Guinier '33 has never had an easy time of it at Harvard. As an undergraduate he was one of only very few blacks in his class, and like many other Depression-era students he had an extraordinarily difficult time financing his education...
...issue was who would control the development process. Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, wanted his department to take the leading role in the Institute during its formative years. Guinier felt that Afro's development depended to a large extent on the resources of the Institute, and he believed that legislation passed by the Faculty in 1969 backed him up on this point. Pusey evidently had other ideas. The president expected that the university itself would keep control over the Institute, and apparently the administration did not want to back down. Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop...