Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Kilson, in his letter of October 29, has in the most unfortunate and negative manner, allowed himself to be used as a pawn by those forces at Harvard opposed to making the university cognizant of and relevant to the agonizing change this society faces in the coming years...
...obvious that Kilson completely misunderstood the basis of the Ad Hoc Committee's protests against the course (Social Sciences 5). It is equally obvious that he did not bother to consult anyone involved for clarification. Thus, rather than assuming what seems to be a natural role of laison between students and instructors of the course, Kilson has seriously inflamed an already tense situation with his diatribe. He might have aided communication; instead he has contributed to its breakdown...
...Kilson attacked the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students for its role as the channel for such complaints and said that the staff would give no assistance to the critics of the course...
Robert L. Hall, '69, a member of Ad Hoc, said Kilson's reaction to the criticism was predictable...
...Kilson, a member of the teaching staff for the course, blasted the black critics for holding the prejudice that no white professor could ever teach a course about black people and their history. "Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning," Kilson charged, "the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...