Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assembly knows that the Engelhard Foundation obviously would not have turned over $1 million without first having insisted on recognition and a legal contract. Harvard would be breaking that legal contract by renaming the Engelhard Library. Even if there was only a moral contract and even if the donation was returned, the Engelhard Foundation could still sue Harvard because 1) the Foundation has been without the use of its money for some time and 2) Harvard allowed Charles Engelhard's name to be smeared at a public dedication...
...changing the name demonstrates disregard for the large number of students at Harvard who have expressed strong opposition to the naming of a library for a man who made his fortune by taking advantage of apartheid conditions and helping to perpetuate them through his support--financial and moral--of the South African regime...
Attempting to offer some moral underpinnings for his opposition to the name-change, Allison states it "would do little to advance the cause of freedom in South Africa." While there is no direct correlation between the renaming of the library and the fall of the white minority government, having the name Engelhard attached to the Kennedy School gives legitimacy to Engelhard's actions in South Africa, and to the company bearing his name which continues to operate there. The current Engelhard family parent corporation, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, has refused to reveal the extent of the assets and activities...
...slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement, and even the First Lady took the time to say she thought America was still strong, still moral. But the slap still stung...
...quotation seems like the moral at the end of the Jonestown fable, the epitaph of the whole affair...