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...Harvard Corporation in a meeting yesterday morning effectively decided not to change the name of the Charles W. Engelhard Library for Public Affairs although a majority of the students said in a recent Student Assembly poll they support a name change...
Many student groups have urged the Corporation to change the library's name because they believe Engelhard, a deceased American businessman who invested heavily in South African mines, contributed to the strength of the apartheid system there...
...There was no support among Corporation members for considering changing the name," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said yesterday. Steiner said the Corporation opposes a name change for two reasons: members do not want to solve such a complex issue on an ad hoc basis, and changing the name would impugn the good motives of the Engelhard Foundation, which donated the library...
...gift was offered to Harvard with the best of motives and was accepted on the same basis, so it would be inappropriate to change the name. It would be like inviting someone to lunch and then asking him if he were worthy of having lunch with me," Steiner said...
...poll results showed that a majority favored renaming the library no matter what, and the people who ran the poll have publicly stated that had the question not been worded so vaguely, the vote in favor of dropping Engelhard's name might well have been higher. Yet Calkins says, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating the majority of students want the name changed and the money returned...