Word: researchers
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...subcommittee will report back to the Committee on Research Policy- "hopefully in about a month." Brooks said. The Committee will then make a recommendation to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which in turn will vote on whether to recommend to the Corporation that Harvard endorse the Project...
...Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences came to no substantive decision yesterday about Project Cambridge but appointed a sixman subcommittee to consider the issue...
Other members of the subcommittee include L Bernard Cohen 37, professor of the History of Science, and Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for the Behavioral Sciences. Both are, like Brooks, members of the Committee on Research Policy; the Committee also decided to ask three non-members to serve on the subcommittee, but these men have not yet agreed...
Pattullo. on the other hand is one of Harvard's biggest experts on the Project. His Center for the Behavioral Sciences withdrew an application for research grants from the National Science Foundation after hearing about the Project. Without official Harvard endorsement of the project. Pattullo said yesterday, individual Harvard participants "would be in a 'beggars at the table' position- wholly dependent on the M. I. T. group...
...Ford, who held the press conference with Brooks, said that he is "quite aware of the very strong political and moral feelings" against the Project. But "the difficulty of taking an institutional position against it." he added, "is that it can become a general position of allowing anybody's research to be debarred by a community consensus or even by what may be a small minority...