Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation gave the Law School a $1 million grant to establish a Center for the Advancement of Criminal Justice, where policemen, judges, and other law enforcement officers could come and do research on problems of crime and justice...
February 17: Because of a 25-year-old University policy against requesting draft deferments for students or employees, a conscientious objector doing research at the School of Public Health was denied permission to count his work here as alternate service. The CO's draft board said the research would be acceptable, but it asked for a letter from Harvard confirming the research project. The Harvard Personnel Office refused, saying that the University could not "ask for deferments...
...myth of the traditional University remains what could be called the Barzun ideology, or the concept of the liberal arts College, or the dream of the temple of learning, disinterested and politically or socially neutral. The reality is of course quite different, as shown by the growth of specialization, research and involvement in public affairs. This discrepancy explains why, in every confrontation, events are actually shaped by the idiosyncracies of the particular University under stress...
Like all human institutions moving into a new era, Harvard has suffered from inner structural defects and the inadequacies of accepted practices. To be sure, the University has been anything but an unchanging institution. In the realms of teaching, curriculum and research there has, in fact, been constant innovation. All of these changes, whether good or bad, in what most might regard as the central functional area of the University, have been carried out within the framework of an administrative structure which has been accepted until recently as more or less adequate by most of the constituencies of the larger...
...central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching research and scholarship. They must be characterized by reasoned discourse, intellectual honesty, mutual respect, and openness to constructive change. By accepting membership in this community, an individual neither surrenders his right nor escapes his fundamental responsibilities as a citizen, but acquires additional rights as well as responsibilities to the whole University community. They do not require him to be silent and passive. But they do require him to see how easily an academic community can be violated, knowingly or unknowingly--whether by actual violence of by lack of responsiveness to widely...