Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, "I derive special satisfaction from the fact that this conference is sponsored by private interests [the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Science]. The Federal Government, with its vast resources, could largely . . . blunt private initiative and individual opportunity. This we must never permit." Government's role: "a persistent partnership" with private institutions...
...science is necessary to the preservation of freedom, he pointed out, freedom is necessary to the overall advancement of science. "It is in this strong conviction that I particularly stress the freedom of the scholar and the researcher." On the other hand, the scientific specialist must "understand that his first responsibility to himself and to his country is to be a good citizen. Above all he must comprehend how his own work fits in effectively in promoting the national welfare...
Finally, Dudley must achieve full recognition from the Harvard community in order to truly become a House. Most of the impetus for this must obviously come from within Dudley House. However, much could be done from without. The monumentality of the latter problem is no more eloquently shown than by your edition of May 7, 1959, which, while devoting the better part of three pages to a sympathetic survey of the problems of Dudley House, could at the same time list the Junior Ushers from Dudley House underneath the other seven Houses, identifying them only as "the remaining ushers...
...making the hours on Friday night the same as on Saturday. One can say, however, that the proposed two hour extension to 10 p.m. will represent little improvement. A couple forced out of the Houses at 10 will still have the problem of where to go until the girl must be in. And at that hour it is too late to go to a show or night spot...
...Harvard, the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are "Trustees," and as such should exercise extreme vigilance whenever they give an honor in the name of Harvard. I do not know how much you were connected with the nomination, but assume that those who chose Bunche's name must consult with you, as president of Harvard...