Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...payments in-lieu-of-taxes. They increased the amount paid to the city each year in 1979, but tenant lawyer Sullivan estimates that Harvard still pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property off the tax rolls," the letter to the Board of Overseers states, citing as proof the University's purchase of the Continental Hotel and the refurbishing of a building on Sumner Rd. City councilor and former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a longtime foe of the University, demanded in January that Harvard increase its in-lieu...
...invest the University's endowment and to set purchasing and fundraising policies. Bok and the Corporation have been careful not to share their power on these issues despite vigorous and widespread faculty and student sentiment. He gave a clue to the reason for this autocratic stance in his second letter when he wrote that Harvard "will command much less respect if it takes political stands on matters unrelated to education, especially among businessmen who regard these stands as the product of student protest and campus unrest...
...bases his argument about intellectual freedom on the assumption that the University can avoid moral dilemmas by ignoring them. In his second letter, he quietly admits that it cannot: "When [the University] makes it purchases, it normally chooses the company that can provide the goods and services it needs at the best available price. Granted, such purchases do contribute something to the supplier's profits. But...'" And Bok goes on to rationalize Harvard's failure to include value judgments in making its purchasing decision. But he has acknowledged the crucial point that the University does support the status quo with...
...second proposition is that decisions made on moral grounds will endanger the independence of the University. This argument, repeated in each of the letters, is a textbook example of circular reasoning. He writes in his first letter...
...continues this line of thought in his last letter...