Word: handlinism
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...problem which plagued Ford after Dow was the widespread attitude that Harvard's Administration was monolithic and, presumable, a supporter of the Establishment. His debate on Vietnam with Professor Oscar Handlin this spring was designed, in part, to demonstrate that no such uniformity exists among University officers on any political question...
...that was not SFAC's intention, the resolution's author Rogers Albritton and its main opponent Oscar Handlin have both said since. The clause on public meetings was intended to be binding in itself; a petitioned company that refuses a public meeting would not be allowed to come to the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy, introduced the resolution and Handlin was the main speaker against it. Both are SFAC members. They presented a series of arguments that had surfaced in the Advisory Council's two-month discussion of recruitment...
With the entire section describing sanctions knocked out of SFAC's resolutions, several Faculty members thought it was unclear whether the remainder could be enforced. One said last night that the University could do no more than request corporations to debate. But SFAC members including Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, said that SFAC intended the clause to bar any company which refused...
...Handlin said last night that in his opinion the enforceability of the public discussions clause will never come to a test. "Dow certainly wouldn't turn down the free publicity of a public platform," he said, "and I don't think any 500 students will care enough to force a meeting...