Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write to express my horror at your editorial on the Rosovsky report and feel compelled to defend the standards of academic propriety that have been evolved slowly and painfully...
...Veritas. The trouble is that no one quite knows what truth is, but we do know some of the things that are necessary if we are to search for it. One of these things is that the searcher must be unprejudiced and well-informed; another is that he must feel secure in expressing his opinions no matter what the opinions of anybody else or even everybody else. One main purpose of the University is to be a place where such people may ponder, study, and express their findings...
...even knows how to create the perfect home for the competent and unprejudiced study and research. The best way we have yet found, however, is the university populated with men who have been selected for their competence and integrity by peers who feel dedicated to the pursuit of truth. The modern American university is the practical embodiment of this institutional ideal. Your editorial displays inadequate appreciation of how much has been won in developing this kind of university, how hard it was to win, and how fragilely it is held...
...blacks to the Harvard graduate school, and these students will in time be available as teaching fellows, House tutors, and for such positions as Senior Tutor. However, pending this development, it is recommended that the Committee on Houses and the Freshman Dean be advised again that the black undergraduates feel that blacks are woefully underrepresented as tutors and proctors in the Houses and in the Freshman dormitories. Even now there are blacks in the graduate school who, it is hoped, would be willing to serve as tutors in the Houses. However, there is a larger number of blacks enrolled...
Obviously these grievances touch on areas well outside the jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and this committee has not found it possible to amass and assess all the evidence in these areas. However we all strongly feel that Harvard should create an environment in which racial justice prevails at all levels and in which civil rights legislation is fully implemented. To this end we urge the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to convey this summary of student sentiments and our concern to the operating departments of the University, and to the Governing Boards...