Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHEN THE Urban League of Boston complained last week about the relatively low number of Negro faculty at Harvard, there wasn't any question of denying the charge. The League was talking specifically about the Ed School, but the name of the School was unimportant: Harvard has only one tenured Negro throughout its faculty...
Faculty and officials argue privately--and justifiably--that there are almost no Negro professionals in the market who match Harvard's Olympian standards of competence. But it is becoming increasingly clear that the changing character of America's urban problem has made Harvard's definition of competence--at least in the social sciences--dangerously anachronistic. Harvard has the responsibility--to itself and to the black community--to seek out and hire black social scientists for both tenured and non-tenured positions...
This is the result of the Center's almost exclusive concern for the professional historian. By definition, the Center is not involved in current affairs and hence doesn't attract the sort of attention that the Kennedy School of Government or the Joint Center for Urban Studies receive...
...late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when teachers decid ed that a student was not benefiting, they simply let him join conventional classes. Of the first 150 students, 60 failed to complete the program...
Kennedy's candidacy has obvious advantages. The former attorney general is an experienced national campaigner who managed his late brother's Presidential victory in 1960. Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...