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...these inadequacies. "It helped change a very archaic governance at Harvard--the place had a totally outmoded communication network from the top to the lowly, and it helped to re-establish communication network from the top to the lowly, and it helped to re-establish communication on all levels," Thomson, now curator of the Nieman Foundation, notes...
...committee to investigate the underlying causes of the occupation. At this first meeting, the liberals won a substantive victory through a compromise, which combined the conservative preamble with the substantive suggestions of the liberals--a new elective committee that "withdrew Faculty power from the president," James C. Thomson, then a junior faculty member and tutor at Leverett House, says...
...placing a large share of the blame on Pusey for bad communication, and for polarizing faculty and students. "The whole thing was avoidable--it took the inflexibility of Pusey and Harvard's built-in arrogance. Pusey was like Dean Rusk--he felt that God was on his side," Thomson notes...
...methods, Levin says his service on the committee convinced him of defects in the structure of the Corporation at that time. "The Corporation was a very small group of people--mostly lawyers--who were not in touch with what was going on, but who had complete autonomy," he says. Thomson notes that now the Corporation hears testimony from many different sources--in part because it was forced to confront a different vision of the University, one it hadn't known existed. "There was a very strong feeling abroad in the land that everyone should be in on the business...
...Faculty largely accepted the recommendations, but imposed a change in the method proposed to select the Council's members. The report had suggested the traditional method of allowing the dean of the Faculty choose the members, with competing slates if Faculty members desired. Thomson and Levin say they tried to insejt a clause in the report that would mandate the election of Faculy Council members. They were overruled by the committee, only to be upheld by the Faculty after furious canvassing by both the liberal and conservative caucuses...