Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson (The Mail, Nov.5) Professor Martin Kilson attacks me as a "low-profile Jewish militant." I do not wish to trade labels with him, but I hope that I may be allowed, briefly, to straighten out the facts with which he attacks me, since he has just about all of them wrong...
...Kilson's remark that Jews ought to raise more money if they wish to worship at Harvard. The Crimson has recently reported that Harvard has launched a special drive to raise 15 million dollars largely from Jewish alumni. The Jewish alumni are working vigorously to raise this money, and yet the University has announced that NONE OF THIS MONEY will be used to provide the desperately needed space and facilities for Jewish worship at Harvard, although the University will continue to provide space for, and support financially, the Protestant church services...
...Kilson tries to tell us that Harvard is as Protestant as Brandeis is Jewish. Does he know that there are three specially built chapels at Brandeis, one for Protestant worship, one for Catholic, and one for Jewish? Does he know that there is a Protestant chaplain and a Catholic Chaplain there, both paid by Brandeis University? Professor Kilson says that pluralism is an American ideal, and it is, indeed, my ideal. If Harvard provides a dignified, heated, well-lit and cleaned building for the worship of its minority Protestant community, it ought to do no less for its other minority...
...forever ambiguous status of people called Americans. Mormons at Harvard dealt with this status ambiguity in a good American fashion: they raised funds and built a religious edifice, on Brattle Street at that. This Americanism--one I happen to cherish--is available to all of us. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...Harvard. In a fascinating study of Chinese in the Carribean, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, comes to the conclusion that ethnic allegiance is not as powerful as Glazer and Moynihan make it out to be. Richard Pipes, professor of History, discusses nationality problems in the Soviet Union, and Martin Kilson, professor of Government, presents a case study of black political attitudes and activity during the late '60's in the context of increasing black ethnicity...