Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These issues include: the Defense Department sponsorship of the Project, the Project's possible effect on the Vietnam War, institutional grants and cooperative enterprises with other universities in general, the quality and honesty of the Project proposal, and the general accessibility of Project research...
...bill limiting Defense Department- sponsored research that has passed both Houses of Congress "could have a considerable effect" on Harvard's decision about the Cambridge Project. Brooks said. The measure would forbid Defense research that does not have "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation...
There is a strong possibility that the Defense Department could circumvent thebill, if it becomes law, by claiming that all research which it sponsors has a direct military application. But such a move, Brooks said, could work against a Harvard decision to join the Cambridge Project...
...Brooks committee will report- after its investigation- to the Committee on Research Policy. This committee will then make a recommendation to the Faculty, which, in turn, will advise the Corporation on how, if at all, Harvard should be associated with the Project...
...contemporary example: the professor who would do research for the Cambridge Project- say, on mass movements in underdeveloped countries- couldn't help but go about it with opinions and preconceptions which would inevitably influence his results. He might assume that such knowledge is good in itself, regardless of how it would be used. Or he might assume that both the knowledge and its probable use are good and right. In any event, he'd be no more objective than the student who would protest his involvement with the Project...