Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for the black professors will also raise a moral dilemna for Harvard. Since most of the nation's Afro-American specialists are now teaching at small black colleges in the South, any success that Harvard has in attracting black professors will come at the expense of a debilitating brain drain from the Southern colleges. The attrition may be fatal for colleges like Miles and Tougaloo; and for many Southern blacks, those colleges are the only educational openings available...
...specialist in many fields--a tribute both to his vast learning and his stubborn refusal to confine himself to one discipline. Among the twenty-three volumes he's produced since 1922 are texts on Herman Melville, on the history of art and literature, on design and architecture and on moral philosophy. But perhaps his most famous and important work has been in urban affairs. Mumford was among the first Americans to study the problems of the cities systemically, and the ideas he formulated in the 1920's have, if anything, gained in relevance as time passed...
Furthermore, the secrecy of the CEP strongly suggests that they wanted to avoid political and moral discussion of their resolution, either in public or at the Faculty meeting. And that seems to me to be a serious violation of the spirit of reasoned discussion...
...class is political every time it turns on a TV set to watch a Chicago or a Detroit, and says to itself, "I wouldn't react so harshly myself, but, after all, they were provoked." It is precisely the secret delight in the violence of others, combined with the moral vision of a sophisticated lynch mob, which makes a sham of liberal tolerance in America. The fact that by the day of the Faculty meeting, SDS had gathered something like 1400 signatures on its petition, suggests that for some. Faculty members cowardice went hand in hand with fraudulent generosity...
Aside from boredom, however, I have growing sense of the political nature (as opposed to moral or educational) of the Administration and many of the Faculty. I do not mean to suggest that many Faculty members are out to get us. Some perhaps are, and many administrators may feel that their jobs would be a lot easier without us. For one thing, they seem to feel that if we weren't around, it would be a lot easier to deal with dissidents in student government, black students, Radcliffe girls, graduate students, junior faculty, and even some senior faculty...