Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to rehearse here all the difficulty our Committee has had, going back to last May, to get a clear answer to the first basic question, whether your Association intends, as a matter of principle, to restrict your membership by considerations of race. As you note in your new letter, your group has "tended to avoid answering the questions whether we shall have restricted membership or not." As recently as October 21, the Faculty Committee was given quite specific written assurances from you and your associat, on the one hand that you had no intention to be exclusive on racial...
...have given careful thought to the deeply-felt arguments in your letter, but have reached the conclusion that we cannot grant formal recognition to your Association, or any other student organization, which would restrict its membership as a matter of principle by stipulations of race, religion, or national origin. Formal, deliberate exclusions of this sort would violate the most deeply held principles of the College. You have noted that even though a student organization has an open membership clause in its constitution, it may nonetheless in its elections practice discrimination and exclusions of a sort we profess to abhor...
...fact, however, Harvard need not restrict its efforts to the Admissions Office. There are many other ways in which the University can benefit Negro education...
Reportedly, however, the committee will restrict itself to these practical particulars and not attempt any broader investigation of the Houses themselves. One Faculty member, nevertheless, expressed the hope that Elder's group would eventually connect its present investigation with a re-evaluation of the House system itself...
American travel to Cuba came under the arbitrary control of the State Department on January 19, 1961. The Department acted under a section of the McCarran-Walter Act which authorizes the executive branch to restrict travel in times of "national emergency" as well as during war. Such a state of national emergency was proclaimed in 1953 and is still legally in effect today...