Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty raised no objections at its meeting yesterday to the recommendation of the Committee on Research Policy that individual Faculty members and students be allowed to sign contracts with the controversial Project...
...Faculty had to act quickly yesterday even to delay the decision of whether to join the policy board. Pusey agreed with Dean Ford in late September that the Committee on Research Policy- not the Faculty as a whole- would serve as spokesman for Faculty opinion on the Cambridge Project...
Harvey Brooks. dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the subcommittee whose majority recommendation the Research Policy Committee adopted Monday, explained to the Faculty yesterday how his subcommittee arrived at its decision in favor of Harvard's joining the policy board. But he prefaced.his statement by saying that it was "for the information of the Faculty, not for action...
...took the floor and asked for "fuller discussion of the matter among the Faculty." As an example of the "extremely difficult and possibly decisive questions" raised by the Cambridge Project, Ptashue cited Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill, which forbids the Defense Department to fund "any research project or study" not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function...
Nineteen of the 20 members of the Research Policy Committee voted yesterday in favor of one or the other of the Brooks subcommittee's recommendation; one member abstained. "No other alternatives were seriously presented at the meeting." Brooks said...