Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with all other seniors, I have recently received a letter signed by the Senior Class Committee, describing the Stephen Biko Memorial Fund as an opportunity, "both to financially assist the University in its academic mission and to show disapproval of the University's investment policy." There are several points seniors should consider before contributing to this chimerical fund...
...South African non-white nationals have been able to overcome the barrier of apartheid to the extent of being admitted to the College, or are likely to do so in the near future. I suspect there may be none. Can anyone disabuse me of this notion? This letter itself certainly does...
...born the Bok propaganda offensive: meetings with the House Masters and with the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, speeches to the Faculty and students and, of course, the Harvard Gazette letters. Bok soon came to rely heavily on the letters, which gave him a chance to consult at his leisure with his chief strategist, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, before committing himself to any positions. In fact, when asked at an open meeting about his policy on naming buildings after unsavory characters, he could only reply "Read my letter...
After deprecating the students and faculty--with only an ephemeral warning about insensitive administrators--the letter moves to the specific problems of defining the conditions under which gifts will be rejected. The most obvious condition, he states, is when a donor "improperly restricts" academic freedom by insisting on choosing who shall be appointed to his endowed chair, or what sorts of doctrines his money shall be used to support. Harvard rejects donations of that sort, Bok says. If a donor wished to "promote the value of the free market," for instance, the money would be turned down. Curiously enough...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President Bok, purporting to add a new "strand of complexity" to the South Africa debate, read a letter from a prominent clerygman asserting that it is, in fact, virtually impossible for multinational firms to "withdraw" from South Africa. Presumably, we are to infer from this that the efforts of the international anti-apartheid movement are futile...