Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities, and restore to American public life the sense of shared experience, trust, and common purpose that seem to be draining out of it, the quality of public design has got to be made a public issue because it is a politcal fact. The retreat from magnificence, to use a phrase of Evelyn Waugh's, has gone on long enough: too long. An era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life. Magnificence does not mean monumental. That seems to be a point to be stressed. I have heard...
PUSEY: Well, I think the implication is clearly that this Faculty and this community has said that the use of force is unacceptable. I think that's what it said...
QUESTION: Dean Ford, President Pusey stated the only issue is the use of force. Do you think that the faculty agrees with that and also do you think the Faculty can take up the question of whether Harvard is involved in the War in Vietnam...
...involved in the War in Vietnam like any other agency or organization of the American people. As an official participant in the war, it is of course not involved at all. The Faculty did agree on the specific incident under consideration, and the overbearing question had to be the use of force. After having supported the board and in effect denouncing that, it went on to discuss other issues, including what has in fact been developing anyway for a long time: more consultation, more Faculty-student dialogue, and agreed to look into the institution of a committee which might have...
GLIMP: Well, as has been indicated, I think the first point the Administrative Board felt very strongly about is the difference between dissent and even vigorous dissent and use of force on another individual. That was the basic feeling. As we began to try to figure out what action might be appropriate, it seemed to us that it was important to weigh the educational considerations, gains that might accrue from moderate but severe action. I suppose in a sense we were saying we'd like to keep the students here and talk to them some more...