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...more than 400 student demonstrators forcefully pointed out at the dedication ceremonies, the Kennedy School's decision to name its Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard--a notorious financial supporter, and beneficiary, of the brutal gold trade in South Africa--was a startling affront to all those who had hoped the University was sincere in its oft-stated concern for the oppressed in South Africa. School administrators, in accepting a $1 million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today--the type...
Morison says Harvard's Overseers chose Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...
...last October's dedication of the K-School library, Smith criticized Harvard for accepting a donation in the name of Charles W. Engelhard and called the proposed naming of the library after Engelhard a "travesty and a damn shame...
Like Temperance Leaguers, Faculty members occasionally launch campaigns to reform tutorials. This year's effort--marshalled by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, joins a long history of changes all directed at the same goal: increased Faculty involvement in tutorials. Sadly, all share the same weakness which dooms their potential for effectiveness: no method of enforcement...
DIED. Ben W. Fortson Jr., 74, Georgia's dauntless, raspy-voiced secretary of state since 1946; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Though doctors predicted he would not live more than ten years after a crippling auto accident in 1929, "Mr. Ben" proved to be one of his state's most durable politicians, surviving numerous changes in administration during his record tenure in office. As Georgia's top election official, he was often at the volatile center of political disputes. When newly elected Governor Eugene Talmadge died in 1946 before taking office, Fortson kept pretenders...