Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most of the alumni think that Harvard is a good place," a 1934 graduate explained. "I feel a great deal of sympathy and empathy with students--maybe it's because my son just graduated last year--but I guess I'm still basically a pacifist and a believer in evolution and a believer in accomplishing ends through rational means...
...respect to Afro-American Studies at Harvard is not satisfatcory. Quite a number of courses recognize the existence of black men in the development of America; quite a bit of expertise is already available. However, merely recognizing black men as integral segements of certain overall social processes is not good enough. We are dealing with 25 million of our own people with a special history, culture, and range of problems...
...Administration against students in the University Hall demonstration. That certain students should feel that the only way to insure getting the Administration's attention is to occupy a building is less surprising than the Administration's response that the only way to negotiate with these students was through the good offices of our local storm troops...
...Administration as skillfully projected the image of giving in to the dissenter's demands, while in reality making no substantive changes. The history of Black student efforts to effect significant academic and social changes are a case in point. In the past year Black students have negotiated in good faith with the University about a series of Black demands. The results have been anything but acceptable. The Afro-American Studies program, as now conceived by the University, even if it were to be temporary, is so far from what Black students envisioned such a program...
...idea of an internal system of University justice assumes that students will not be subjected to the manifold risks of the outside system. There are, perhaps, arguments for and against the whole idea of insulating Harvard from outside justice. But no good argument can be made for subjecting a student to the threat of criminal prosecution, forcing him to fight it as best he can, and then, should he escape, confronting him with Harvard's own punitive action. The principle of double jeopardy may not legally apply here, but the common sense behind that principle remains compelling. When President Pusey...