Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet in University Hall's Faculty Room at 3 p.m. today to begin consideration of whether Harvard should ally itself officially with the Cambridge Project...
...other hand, the question of how the research will be used is one that needs to be pursued honestly and with a grounding in reality. The argument is made that since the Cambridge Project is funding "basic" research, there is no sure way of determining how whatever applications may eventually arise from a given research project will be put into use-and that therefore science should be allowed to run its course. But while it is true that the outcome of theoretical or advanced research is impossible to forecast with great accuracy, that does not mean that we can only...
Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Research and Planning and secretary of the Committee, said the group will make no decision at tomorrow's meeting. It will probably appoint a subcommittee "to look at the Project in further detail," Leahy said. The subcommittee after an investigation that might include public hearings, would report back to the Conunittee...
...Committee on Research Policy, which is chaired by Dean Ford, includes 17 professors. After the Committee's recommendation to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty will vote on whether to recommend to the Corporation that Harvard endorse ?e Project...
...Cambridge Project, funded by the Defense Department, will attempt to use computers for basic research in social science methodologies. Some radicals have attacked the Project as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...