Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty, all members signify their will ingress to be bound by majority decisions with respect to those matters about which the Faculty is authorized and competent to act. But few if any members joined with the understanding that they were to accept the right or competence of any part of the Faculty to speak for them on matters of conscience and politics...
...bring political issues before it. Many of us feel that, though we disagree among ourselves on many current issues, including the war, we should restate the reasons for this resistance. None of these arguments touch on the right of any member of the Faculty, acting individually or as part of a group of colleagues, to take action in support of political objectives...
When I think of the work we should be doing under this roof it is with Lowell's ideas as signposts. The points of reference suggested by Lowell are, I have always thought, the pivotal ideas of the work of the Health Services, and a large part of the work that goes on in the several Dean's offices at Harvard College. This work has to do with the personal and private aspects of education. I do not mean to say that Lowell has it all right in detail, but I do think that by understanding the mood...
...from the formal definition I gave a few seconds ago, but he might say, if asked to define humanity, that his version of it meant in some sense care, concern, and kindness. But we do not live by definitions, rather by the individual will and style that is a part of us, and by which we cope with the world and meet the people who come our way. I think the new sensibility asks that we talk to people in our offices or the Harvard dining halls sitting on the edge of our chairs...
...Harvard we find a concord of sensibilities that call for some degree of excellence, seriousness about one's part in the enterprise and uncertainty about Harvard when it is a system. We all have heard of the Harvard arrogance, but I think much more characteristic is the antithesis, the questioning of this place by people who have been here a long while, and by those who have just come. I think this questioning is the way to insure that the individual and political questions at Harvard will be met with passion and reason. Perhaps the suspense created by the question...