Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author is the graduate secretary of PBH and a graduate student in the History of American Civilization...
...SEEMED, until now, the better part to make no public response either to the report on PBH of the Committee on Students and Community Relations or on the unpublished remarks of several of its members. However, Mr. Bryce has decided to offer the "completely open and frank statement" of the subcommittee report and his commentary. Since I accept the good faith of the members of Mr. Bryce's subcommittee I can only question their competence to evaluate PBH. The report and Mr. Bryce's comments contain serious inaccuracies and almost complete misunderstanding of our finances, and an argument that moves...
...open and frank" to, in Mr. Bryce's words, "refrain from publicizing many internal difficulties and contradictions that we stumbled upon," particularly in regard to money? No member of PBH was ever presented with these difficulties. The subcommittee report also suggests that PBH misused the original Faculty of Arts and Sciences subsidy for central administrative costs instead of for consultants. A brief look at the PBH correspondence with Dean Ford, of which the subcommittee had copies, would have made clear that the original subsidy was always earmarked for such items as postage, automobile and travel expenses, and other central costs...
...Bryce and his Committee indulge in another easy and unsubstantiated criticism. They suggest that the PBH Faculty Committee ought to bestir itself to greater activity and to remedy its ignorance of PBH. I do not understand how the charge can be made, given the membership of the PBH Faculty Committee. But the most irrefutable response is to point out that the PBH Faculty Committee meets monthly with the executive officers of PBH; that, in addition, at least nine of the members consult quite regularly with individual programs, committee chairmen, the officers, and the graduate secretary. I know of few other...
...PBH alone will not solve the problems plaguing Cambridge. Massive revenue-sharing programs will be a start for urban centers in the United States and a strong world organization is the ultimate solution. But for the moment, the University's firm financial support of PBH is a small solid step well worth the investment...