Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...activities. The protest has subsided, and the documents remain private privilege. But what the episode has shown clearly is that DAS activities must not be assessed, nor can they be blindly defended, in connection with the free pass of knowledge which is commonly regarded as essential to the academic process...
...CONFIDENTIAL documents go on to make some even more surprising statements concerning the influence of the DAS and of other "international consortium" groups on the decision-making process within the Indonesian government. Earlier this fall, former DAS director Gustav Papanek said that that government was "one of the most self-assured and independent-in the economic sphere-that I know of," and added in particular that the early advice provided to the regime by the International Monetary Fund had never been pivotal in nature. But in a confidential memorandum circulated within Harvard in the fall of 1968. Papanek stated that...
...think it is a giant step into mythmaking to say that a spectator could pack all of the great conflicts of America into that one courtroom and live them out day-by-day as the trial unfolded. The Harvard Law School view was that the American judicial process was on trial. Washington columnists thought they were testing the 1968 anti-riot law. Abbie Hoffman said Amerika was on trial. The defense attorneys said the Movement was. Others claimed it was youth versus age or sex versus sterility. Or even Mayor Daley's version of the convention riots versus the media...
...this year's program. Taylor stated, "Our object is to find the brother whom the regular admissions process doesn't even begin to touch. The Schools Committees of the Harvard Clubs are lily-white, and many committee members are just plain scared to journey into schools on our side of town. The end product is that so much of our people's genius is left at 18 or 19 nodding on stoops or over-represented in the front lines of Vietnam...
...Certain past injustices in the transition between the recruitment processed the recruitment process and the admissions process" have resulted in an atmosphere of distrust in the Harvard black community toward the admissions office, he added...