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...Committee of Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) will tonight hear the case against a graduate student charged with preventing Edwin H. Land '29, president and chairman of the board of the Polaroid Corporation, from delivering a scientific lecture on color vision at a Physics Department Colloquium on March...
Spurred by numerous faculty and student complaints, Dean Dunlop has asked the Committee of Inquiry to study the disruption of the Physics Department's colloquium on March 8, at which Edwin Land, president of the Polaroid Corp., was a scheduled speaker...
...your issue of Tuesday, March 9, you incorrectly attributed the cancellation of the Physics Department Colloquium to its scheduled speaker, Dr. E. H. Land, President of the Polaroid Corporation. I decided, in consultation with an ad hoc committee of five members of the Department of Physics, to cancel the colloquium when it became clear that conditions permitting a scientific presentation could not be maintained. We deplore the loss to the Harvard community of the opportunity to hear from Dr. Land himself about the latest results in his unique and exciting research on color vision...
...demonstrators gathered outside the lecture hall in which Land was scheduled to speak. Several minutes later, Roy J. Glauber '46, professor of Physics and director of the physics colloquium which sponsored the lecture, announced Land's cancellation...
...colloquium no more intends to urge people to support Polaroid in South Africa than to urge them to buy Polaroid stock," Glauber said yesterday. "But these people are denying our right to talk about science, even though we are concerned about the uses to which science is put," he added...