Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well desegregation was working. One reason for the lack of enterprise: feeling about segregation runs so high in the South that no matter what stand a paper takes, it is certain to antagonize large groups of its readers. As a result, some dailies, says Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill. "have taken the position that the less said about desegregation the better-on the theory that if you don't talk about something you dislike, you'll wake up one morning and find that it's gone away...
...within the next few days, however, under the name of the "Kamin Legal Aid Fund" to receive any mailed contributions. All contributions should be made out to Kamin personally, Solomon said. They are forwarded immediately to Kamin, who holds a one-year appointment as research assistant in psychology at McGill University in Montreal...
...contributions have come from outside the University," he added, "although we expect more. We still have some time yet to raise money and we expect an increase from outside." He did not know of any gifts from McGill staff members, since these contributions would be sent direct to Kamin at McGill rather than to the informal group in Boston...
...cited for contempt, the Corporation declared, "So long as the case is pending, we do not think it appropriate to make any further statement on the subject." Such declaration may not make much of a splash on the news pages, but its importance is illustrated by another statement, from McGill University where Kaman is now teaching. Said McGill's president, "The court still has to make up its mind. Then, obviously, we can't do anything until it decides...
Both Universities are to be congratulated for their self-restraint, but Harvard should be particularly proud. Perhaps McGill would have made the same decision anyway, but undoubtedly it was made much easier by the fact that McGill's trustees knew from previous statements what Harvard's policy would be. That McGill chose this path rather than that of Cornell, which relieved Professor Singer of his teaching duties, and M.I.T., which suspended Professor Struck, when the two men were indicted, is a tribute to Harvard's leadership...