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Track Coach William W. McCurdy said Friday that he was "very interested" in the idea, but thinks specific details must be worked out before the plan is presented to the HAA. "I am a babe in the woods when it comes to plastic bubbles," he said...
...unique position to try. One effort perhaps should be to invite as honorary associates young and imaginative newcomers to the federal and state governments -- officials like Senator Mark O. Hatfield, or Mitchell Sviridoff of New York City's anti-poverty program -- who can give students an idea of the possibilities and excitement of politics and public service. The Institute could also ask former government offifficals to visit Harvard to give students some insight into past policy disputes and decisions. Two excellent choices would be former Deputy Mayor of New York Robert Price and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric...
...himself, Burlingham concedes, the school has been radicalizing. He believes, however, its effect on most students is to discourage any kind of radical thinking. "Sweeping proposals are frowned on from the word go--the idea is to grind in the notion that most things shouldn't be questioned," Burlingham says...
Even this idea, however, has encountered some criticism within the Institute. Abram J. Chayes 43, a Faculty Associate of the Institute and professor of Law, sees two problems. First, "no one does his most productive work if he's concerned about what he's going to do next, and most of the Fellows may not be sure what they'll be doing after Harvard." Second, Chayes feels that the notion that a person should expect to shuttle back and forth between government and private life "isn't too relevant." "The point of returning to private life," he explains...
...unlikely that the Institute's independence of the government, and its refusal to give credit course in either the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the Kennedy School, will dispel many of its critics. For many, the idea of the Institute serving, in Neustadt's words, "as the research arm of the Kennedy School," will be repugnant. It will evoke cries that intellectuals are compromising themselves by maintaining contacts with government officials and concerning themselves with the constraints that operate on policy-makers...