Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will hold a rally on the steps of University Hall during the Faculty meeting. Kazin said the rally would have gone on even if Ford had permitted representatives of SDS to join the meeting...
...letter to Ford said that "no one at Harvard has the right to decide to maintain ROTC on campus in view of what ROTC-trained officers are doing in Vietnam and elsewhere." However, Kazin said that he thought the faculty would not vote to abolish ROTC...
Consider the House assignment debate; the Masters talked for four years about the problem and couldn't come up with a solution. Finally, they turned it over to Dean Ford and asked him to make a decision. This shows the structural limitation inherent in the COH. The Masters feel fierce competition among thesemlves as representatives of the different Houses. They evaluate each proposed social reform in terms of how it will affect their own House's "prestige" or "position" vis-a-vis the other Houses. Since each proposal which comes before the Committee is bound to "lower" some Houses...
...think of any issue this goddamned commtitee ever did solve," said Master Crooks, who has been a COH member since the House assignment debates of five years ago. He added, "A vote has never decided anything on this committee. We always end up turning everything over to Dean Ford, saying 'We can't decide,' and he ends up making the decisions...
...debate over seating gave the impression that they had the power to do something. The fact is that the meeting resolved nothing, and after the talking was over the COH turned the problem over to Dean Ford, who wrote a personal letter to the HUC, explaining the rejection of the proposal "as a representative...