Word: project
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That concession appears to be of little consequence, though. Two conservative members of the Faculty subcommittee which studied the Cambridge Project indicated last night that Harvard Faculty members will probably join M. I. T. professors in forming Project policy whether or not they are on the policy board...
...Faculty had to act quickly yesterday even to delay the decision of whether to join the policy board. Pusey agreed with Dean Ford in late September that the Committee on Research Policy- not the Faculty as a whole- would serve as spokesman for Faculty opinion on the Cambridge Project...
...close of Brooks' speech, however, Mark Ptashue, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, took the floor and asked for "fuller discussion of the matter among the Faculty." As an example of the "extremely difficult and possibly decisive questions" raised by the Cambridge Project, Ptashue cited Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill, which forbids the Defense Department to fund "any research project or study" not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function...
...motion to vote on whether to ask Pusey to delay a decision on the Project until the Faculty had discussed it failed to gain the four-fifths support it needed. But minutes later Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science, asked Pusey if he thought he had heard the Faculty's opinion on the Project, and Pasey answered. "I assume I have, through the report of the Committee on Research Policy...
Several Faculty members shouted "No" to this. John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economies, then asked Pusey the same question which earlier had required a four-fifths vote to even be considered by the Faculty: "Will you see to it that no decision on the Cambridge Project will take place until the Faculty places the matter on its docket...