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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 in the College...
...composure served him well when, in 1969, campus tensions reached a boiling point and student protestors 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...
Stephen J. Ford ’69, the dean’s son, said that the stress of those tumultuous days had a harmful effect on his father, who suffered a mild stroke within a month after the University Hall takeover...
...think he believed deeply in the traditional values of a university—freedom of expression and thought, a collegial search for understanding, rigorous scholarship and intense debate,” Stephen Ford said. “I think that was behind a lot of his disappointment with what happened at Harvard in those days. He was under an awful lot of strain...