Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dion '68, who chaired last night's meeting, said that the Quincy House chapter of the Draft Union has received over $200 in response to a letter the chapter sent to all parents of Quincy students. The letter explained the Draft Union's work and asked the parents for help...
Last week this approach changed. The Negotiating Committee's decision to hold black-white meetings in the Houses was a bold experiment. If it had failed, it would have only confirmed blacks' suspicion that Harvard whites didn't care and weren't going to help...
...apply the same program across the color line, of course, he might see that race conflicts which continually erupt into politics could be short-circuited--in part at least. For a program which met the needs of both the black and white communities, and involved loans, self-help, and very few hand-outs, could be the basis of a new politics--a politics which did not have to tax one group to give hand-outs to another--and a politics which could take a long step towards the political reconstruction of the ideal of community and cooperation...
Such an approach might even help American cities get beyond the crisis which threatens to pull conventional-minded leadership into the hands of violence, counter-violence--and the now all too conventional cycle of rebellion, terror and repression
More action it is agreed, is to be expected on the local than on the national level, mostly notably in New York where Lindsay has vowed to champion the Report. Whether or not the Report is a step towards curing the "white man's sickness' 'and whether it will help prevent more violence are open questions, and nowhere more so than at Harvard