Word: helpful
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...other words, will remain officially detached. It continues to maintain that research is its primary function, though now it also emphasizes the training of minority-group students to lead the ghettos to independence. And there will be no taking sides. The Ed School will work with anyone who needs help. It is staying out of politics...
...students are the only group working openly for formal community links. In a document circulated among faculty last week, MAT's asked for compulsory student work with educational self-help groups in Roxbury, and also suggested that community leaders attend courses at Harvard and discussion groups with MAT's. Eventually, Roxbury leaders would become full faculty members and, hopefully, exert some influence on the course of Ed School urban activities...
...guidelines are necessarily vague, for the situation is unprecedented. The key words seems to be flexibility and old-fashioned, personal politics. Mutual interest may provide a powerful incentive--for the Ed School researcher, an access to materials of his trade, and for the self-help group, assistance in teaching, in drawing up applications for grants, in conversing with the white establishment...
Harvard supporters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Poor People's March" are asking undergraduates to help house and feed poor people on their way to anti-poverty demonstrations in Washington this weekend...
SCLC supporters will meet the "Caravan" at the Christ Church in Cambridge at 5 p.m. Thursday and then escort the poor to the University Dining Halls, Laurence S. Seidman '68, spokesman for the group, said yesterday. Students who agree to help house and feed the poor should meet them in the House Junior Common Room at 5:30 p.m., he added...