Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A half-decade after 35 black students took over Mass Hall in protest of Harvard's $20 million investment in Gulf Oil Corporation stock, University administrators and the takeover participants themselves present vastly different analyses of the decline in activism among Harvard students, and the changes--if any--in Harvard...
Although the protesters explain it in different terms, almost all of them express a pessimistic, almost fatalistic feeling that the University can never truly become an institution which ethically invests its funds. Many see the problem not simply as a function of the individuals who form the Corporation, however.
Clement Cann '74 believes the takeover highlighted a continuing contradiction at the heart of the University as an institution. As a capitalist institution trying to maximize the yield of its investments, Harvard is necessarily forced into a position "in opposition to human potential and growth," Cann says.
This takeover participant agrees that since the early seventies, the University has started to admit relatively more black applicants from professional, upper class families. Doe is a native of Georgia who grew up in an epoch when he says segregation was still a legal institution and lynchings an occasional horror...
Five years later, the Mass Hall occupiers who protested Harvard ownership of Gulf Oil stock feel pessimistic about the prospects for more socially responsible University investing. They doubt that a more activist Harvard student group will arise in the near future. But it is clear that they do not believe...