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...Ewart Guinier '33 has never had an easy time of it at Harvard. As an undergraduate he was one of only very few blacks in his class, and like many other Depression-era students he had an extraordinarily difficult time financing his education...
...Guinier called the report's failure to recommend a tie between Afro and the institute a "death-blow...
...case, the conflict between Guinier and the central administration took its toll. Guinier, who had been appointed by Pusey to chair the committee overseeing DuBois's development, refused to convene the Faculty committee until the administration changed its stand. Neither the administration nor Guinier would budge, and for nearly two years no action was taken on the Institute's behalf...
...months later President Bok used this opening to appoint a new committee to take over the planning of the Institute. Bok named Walter Leonard as the committee's chairman, and asked Guinier to serve as one of its seven members. Despite speculation that he would refuse the appointment, Guinier attended all of the committee's meetings...
...Leonard Committee, after meeting regularly for eight months, submitted its report to Bok on December 21. Less than a week later Guinier followed with a letter of his own to Bok. In his letter Guinier expressed his disapproval of the report and claimed that the report's failure to recommend any formal ties between the DuBois Institute and the Afro-American Studies Department would be a "death-blow" to the department. Guinier also charged that the committee was never allowed to vote on the full report, a charge which Leonard denied...