Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parenthood Renounced. Students themselves are for the most part unimpressed with internal changes at many universities. Even where adroit maneuvering avoided tough police action against dissidents, as at the University of Chicago, there is bitterness. Roger Black, editor of the Chicago undergraduate paper Maroon, said last week that the "tightlipped, moralistic and adamant" attitude of administrators and senior professors has "planted very deep seeds of demoralization." Looking beyond the campus, many students are even more distressed. Apparent progress in negotiations over Viet Nam has been too slight to eliminate the war issue. Military spending, poverty, the skein of racial problems...
...inquiry. Because of the devotion to learning, and a belief in the importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part of a community and not simply journeymen in some guild...
Further and perhaps most important, deciding what to do cannot be done by Harvard, or some part of Harvard, acting unilaterally. In every area to which this committee has turned its attention, there are already programs underway, organizations formed, spokesmen selected, conflicts apparent. Just as "the" community does not exist. We impinge upon many communities and some of them--perhaps most--are deeply suspicious of Harvard's intentions and capacities. No master plan for community development can or should be devised by Harvard alone, because any action requires first to work out, carefully and over time a subtle and complex...
...dscale not yet attempted in the city.... We believe it is possible for the city and the universities to onnounce, after appropriate study, a joint program to add a certain number of housing units with a five or ten year program. We would like to see the university, as part of this joint program, reconsider whether it might become the sponsor of one or more federally assisted housing programs. The university already owns property along the Charles River that might be the site of a federally subsidized development open to both faculty and non-Harvard citizens...
Second, as part of such a policy, the Personnel Office should inaugurate a vigorous and continuing program of recruitment in the poorer neighborhoods (black and Spanish-American) where barriers of discrimination over-laid by the habits of defeatism make economic advancement particularly difficult. Local employment agencies in these areas should be regularly visited and kept well-informed as to job opportunities at Harvard...