Word: project
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central issue of Harvard debate on the Project, then, is whether, the University should join M.I.T. as an institutional sponsor. Conservatives tend to minimize the significance of co-spon-soring the Project; the majority of the Brooks subcommittee justified Harvard participation with the following argument: since Harvard people will be involved in the Project anyway, it said, "Harvard as an institution . . . must accept responsibility for the direction and balance of the work by sharing control of the enterprise with M.I.T...
...question just isn't that simple. If Harvard agrees to join the Cambridge Project as an institution, it will be lending its considerable prestige to a project about which a number of legal and ethical questions have been raised...
...crucial legal issue involves Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill. That section forbids the Defense Department, beginning next fiscal year, to fund any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function." Thus, future Defense funding of the Cambridge Project-which involves basic rather than applied research-would seem to be illegal...
...very well try to thwart the intent of this law-i.e., limiting the military's influence in American society-by claiming that even basic research is directly related to "a specific military function." John Womack Jr. 59, assistant professor of History and a member of the anti-Project minority on the Brooks subcommittee, said Wednesday that Harvard involvement in the Project "may amount to collusion" with the Defense Department in circumventing Section...
...There are other reasons for Harvard to be extremely wary of joining the Cambridge Project It is highly unlikelythat the Defense Department would spend $7.7 billion on a project which it didn't think would benefit it in some way. Although the Cambridge Project does involve methodological rather than applied research, the methodologies it develops could prove quite useful later in Defense Department strategy-making. And the present role of the Defense Department in the world is far from a benevolent...