Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaders of six Harvard's student groups issued a statement yesterday committing their groups to "the relief of famine in Biafra." They invited the Cambridge community to an organizational meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 2 Divinity...
...endorsing the proposal of the Wilson committee that Harvard create a post of vice president for external affairs. In introducing the order, Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann called the Wilson report "a thoughtful review of the problems of our University city." She said that she agreed with the committee's statement that "Harvard is insufficiently staffed and inadequately organized to respond community demands...
...supporters of the statement were Ray A. Hammond '70, vice-president of Afro; Rodney L. Petersen '71, president of the Christian Fellowship; Richard F. Green '71, president of Hillel; Barry H. Gordon '70, vice-president of PBH; Charles E. Schumer '71, president of the Young Democrats; and Jonathan B. Ratner '70, chairman of YPSL...
...Harvard group's statement explained the reason for their drive: "the initial shock last July of learning that six million persons would die of starvation over the coming year, many of us were troubled by a sense of being able to do nothing to alleviate the situation. So we did nothing...
President Pusey, hitherto deliberately distant from campus squabbles, heeded their call the very same day. "The irony and tragedy of the present," wrote Pusey in a statement emphatically endorsing the professors' stand, "is that now the threats to academic liberty and integrity often come from within." Declared Pusey: "Harvard has the right to expect that members of its faculties and the great majority of its students will have sufficient understanding, historical sense, reason and self-control to insist that coercive methods have no place in this university community." Harvard has been able to count on such understanding...