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...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...
When then-Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy announced his departure in December 1960, a long search for his successor ultimately culminated in the appointment of Ford in June...
Faculty meetings were marked by heated debates on subjects ranging from the formation of an African-American studies department to the University’s position on the conflict in Vietnam. In addition to his duties as dean, Ford had to mediate the escalating disputes between faculty members, students and administrators, which he did with patience and forbearance...
...When one reads transcripts of interviews with Dean Ford during the time he was in University Hall, it’s clear that he had a wonderful clarity about—and concern for—the undergraduate experience,” said former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. “The troubles of the late 1960s were testing—and sometimes distressing—for everyone in the Harvard administration, and we can only be grateful that Franklin Ford generously gave us more than two decades after that, as a distinguished historian and teacher...
...composure served him well when, in 1969, campus tensions reached a boiling point and student protesters took over University Hall. The last dean to leave the building during the student siege, Ford sat in his office and said: “I am prepared to remain in the building for as long as you like, to discuss things...