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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty debates on the merger?" Gerald Holton, Malinckrodt Professor of Physics and Faculty member during the Faculty merger discussions, sounded bewildered, but amused. "They are a small part of my autobiography," he confessed...
...have only the vaguest notion what anyone said. Even John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the Faculty and often dubbed 'Harvard's unofficial historian,' knows he went to the meetings concerning the merger, but confesses uncomfortably, "I don't remember anything." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, was also around at the time but explains, "The merger wasn't what I was thinking about back then." He was not +alone...
...fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later. In the following months, as the faculty cowered in Sanders Theater and Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, guarded the portals of Widener Library, the merger was far from anyone's mind...
...examine the issues." Although the Faculty planned to form the committee by the end of the '68-'69 academic year, it did not name the members until August, and the committee in turn did not meet until September. And no Faculty members recall hearing a committee report. On professor said he thought Giles Constable '50, professor of History, might have reported, but Constable denies ever sitting on such a committee...
With the merger committee apparently out of commission, Ernest R. May, professor of History and Dean of the College, tried once more to prod the Faculty toward resolving the merger issue in the winter of '69-'70. He opened the floor of the Faculty meeting in February to debate on the merger, but few could think of anything substantial to say. So Constable moved to set up a merger committee. Or so the Faculty minutes claim. Constable doesn't remember this either...