Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday I submitted to the group my proposal, which was not, I might add, written in any secret meeting, and requested that I be notified if it was to be incorporated into another proposal or dropped altogether...
...last Thursday's Faculty meeting, Rosovsky said that "increased student consultation and participation is entirely possible within the framework designed by us." But in light of Tuesday's vote, he said, "obviously many of my colleagues hold a very different opinion...
...walking into the building violence ("We seek only peace in Vietnam"). Willful action has more impact than violence, because violence, especially police violence, has become banal. It may seem remarkable that scarcely a word has been said at faculty meetings about the incredible brutality of the police in the Thursday morning bust. But why? Police violence has become accepted in our society, built into our ideology. Killing in Vietnam, remember, is not murder. It is not murder because it has a reason rooted in ideology. ("Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse...
...participation of educated young men from this or other universities in the military services. Nor do I wish to diminish the role the military services have played historically in assuring our security and freedom. That is not the purpose of the resolution voted by the Faculty last Thursday. For my part, and here I can speak only, as one member of this Faculty. I would like to see a transition begin not only as soon as possible within legal restraints, but see it carried out as openly and candidly as possible. No purpose will be served by obscuring the intent...
Harvard can lead the nation, as it has in the past. The near unanimous vote of the Faculty on Thursday should give the President and Fellows the backing they need to end the University's conventional ties to ROTC and to find new ways of affirming Harvard's responsibility to the national defense more in keeping with our times. I cannot presume to guess what those ways will be, and I can only hope that the intent of the Faculty to limit ROTC to an ordinary extracurricular activity will be clearer by virtue of this letter. Jerome S. Bruner Professor...