Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such courage ought to be the ultimate product of last week's ugly confrontation at Harvard. The lesson is that force, at best, offers only temporary solutions. What the American university needs above all is a new integrity?moral authority, the unsolicited respect of the young and the old alike. Only thus can the university be immune to extremism and able to follow its calling of truth and reason?the role that Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University defined as providing an "environment for the continuous polishing of one mind by another...
...feeling that campus rules are childish is only one reason that the university's moral authority has been discredited in the eyes of the young. More significant is the profound transformation of the university from an academic cloister to'a mass industry producing society's key skills and specialists. Bigness has eroded the university as a community?just when campuses are flooded with students yearning for community. To many students and some professors, the university is now a giant corporation that manufactures human cogs for other corporations while performing "complicit" war research for the country's alleged militarists. "The college...
...universities become active participants in changing society? Even in merely training people, they change society. But activists want more. Charles Palmer, student-body president at Berkeley, argues that "the university must respond to minority needs instead of just the agricultural and business needs if it is going to be moral." Says David Kemnitzer, a 22-year-old anthropology student at Berkeley: "The university should be examining this society and constructing alternative societies. It should be enshrining Black Panther Spokesman Eldridge Cleaver and [Herbert] Marcuse. It should provide an environment where people can become loving, intelligent and sentient beings. It should...
Many Faculty members undoubtedly consider intransigence backed by moral repugnance to be a tempting position. But that is precisely the attitude that has predominated at university after university, and always with the same result--emotions fly while everything else stands still. Harvard should be in a position to learn from this unfailing pattern and, incidentally, to help design a new one. Only be dealing concretely with all the issues raised can the natural impulse of both student and Faculty to solve internal problems and enlist their energies against the vastly more confounding problems of the outside world be restored...
...Corporation recognize the authority of this committee on issues relevant to the life of the community, and its moral and social concerns...