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Pusey argued that "a number of professors here are eager to have access to Cambridge Project funds and have been waiting a long time for them." But after Galbraith said that the Faculty would leave the question of individual participation in the Project "to individual needs and consciences." Pusey agreed to delay his decision on joining the policy board...
...night that he was "disappointed that an issue as important as this was presented, without any opportunity for Faculty discussion or vote, by a committee that is appointed rather than elected." The Committee on Research Policy voted. 11 to 8, on Monday in favor of Harvard's joining the Project policy board: the alternative of not joining the board- supported by a minority of both the Brooks subcommittee and the Research Policy Committee- was not presented to the Faculty yesterday...
...Faculty will discuss the Project either at a special meeting this month or at its regular January meeting. Brooks said last night that he was "somewhat disturbed at the way the Project was held over" by the Faculty: both he and Herrnstein referred to the Harvard people who have refrained from participating in the Project since its beginning last June as "good soldiers...
...resolution adopted by the Committee on Research Policy said that the Brooks subcommittee "found no evidence for the claim that the kind of research proposed under the Project was inherently 'immoral' or 'repressive.'...[it found that] the Project has been basic research, unrelated to military programs except in the sense that such research relates to all programs involving human beings...
...subcommittee took as its fundamental premise," Brooks told the Faculty yesterday, "that to deny our Faculty members or students permission to participate [in the Cambridge Project] is inconsistent with any meaningful definition of academic freedom. Once this fundamental premise is accepted, according to a majority of the subcommittee, Harvard as an institution cannot remain wholly uninvolved, but must accept responsibility for the direction and balance of the work by sharing control of the enterprise with...