Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorizing the groundwork for a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies last week, Dean Ford started the process of filling a shameful hole in the University's curriculum. Ford's support is crucial for any proposed academic change, and his responsiveness to the black students proposal may be a turning point in building a program for students of Afro-American culture here. And since innovations at Harvard have echoes in other parts of the country, the new program could give academic legitimacy to the study of black history and institutions, which is now neglected in almost all secondary schools...
...Ford, with record first-quarter sales of $3.9 billion, up 36% from last year's sluggish first period, earned $222 million-an 84% increase that beat General Motors' 17% profit rise (to $457 million) but not Chrysler's impressive 280% jump (to $69.3 million) over the same quarter last year, when it was hit by an unusually severe combination of higher costs, lower sales...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Council's resolution asking the Faculty to limit recruitment on campus was not discussed yesterday. Dean Ford said that the resolution reached him too late to go on the printed docket which is mailed to all Faculty, and that bringing it up spontaneously might have raised charges that the proposal wasn't getting a fair hearing. It will be docketed for the Faculty's next meeting...
...Ford said last week that the committee might also consider problems of "staffing" the houses. "We have to look into the mechanics of getting the positions filled," he said...
Although the committee will examine many long-term issues of House structure, Ford said, it will probably not report on the controversial issues of parietals and student control of Houses that are now being considered by other committees...