Word: opener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open letter, President Bok challenged the assumptions of the divestiture movement and then proceeded to pick its arguments to pieces. While restating the central idea of a university he gave a masterly example of that idea in operation...
...open meeting between students and the Faculty committee this spring chaired by Edward L. Keenan '57, the most vocal students challenged the committee's stated opposition to forming a concentration in women's studies. Keenan argued that women's studies has no methodology, "no way of discovering facts" that differs from the way any other researcher attacks a problem. Instead, researchers in women's studies approach questions about women using the techniques of a historian, a scientist, an anthropologist or an economist, for example...
...President Bok's recent open letter to the community on boycotts has left most people confused about the status of the report. In that letter, Bok wrote that the University should not try to dictate the policy of a corporation because such action could threaten the appearance of neutrality that a university has an obligation to maintain. It might scare off professors who feel the University is trying to advocate a certain view--a view that may be contradictory to their own beliefs, Bok said. He also warned that Harvard should not officially exercise its consumer leverage to control corporate...
What can Harvard University do about South Africa? Read President Bok's open letters on the subject. Though written for a particular occasion, these letters rise above it because they contain the most thoughtful statement of a university's relationship with society which has appeared in America in the last decade...
...unsettle racist tyranny in South Africa. But what of class tyranny in Communist countries which does not merely put its victims in apartheid but imprisons, tortures and kills them? Why is one denounced but not the other? This lopsided morality is open to the charge levelled by Sozhenitsyn at the 1978 Harvard Commencement that we apply our morality only to those whom we believe to be weak...