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Pisani said yesterday that "from the viewpoint of organization and efficiency, I'd have to agree with the report and many, many of its recommendations...
...things should be clear from the foregoing: first, whatever look of "balance" our speakers list may have acquired was accidental, though from my viewpoint serendipitous. But second, and more important, the presence of no one on that week's list "legitimize" any one else on that list, as some of your reports have suggested. Ellsberg did not "legitimize" Colby as a Nieman speaker any more than Colby "legitimized" Ellsberg or Marchetti. We don't happen to use such criteria in the selection of our guests, and we won't be held to using them in the future. James C. Thomson...
...comes only from the free gift of the people when they vote for you." Poverty, too, he went on, "can blind a man or a woman. Some never rise above the hungry resentments of early hardships. Others never rise above a merely regional background to achieve a national viewpoint. I believe that my 40-year public career demonstrates that I have tried and at least partially succeeded in rising to achieve a broad national outlook...
...report's most important recommendation was that the Economics curriculum be "broadened" to include the study of problems "not easily encompassed within the corpus of traditional economics as taught at Harvard." The broadening of the Ec Department's curriculum and faculty viewpoint is what the constantly dwindling number of radicals have demanded for the past five years. While the radicals may have been pleased by the belated official confirmation of their stand, the visiting committee report may be one of the final ironies of the most recent radical-orthodox struggle, and not the first skirmish...
...small group could have a very substantial impact against the control of education by more orthodox and conservative faculty and a more conservative society in general. The problem for Harvard faculty radicals has been until now a refusal by the rest of the faculty to accept the radical viewpoint. For Taylor, Skocpol and any radical teachers in the future, the problem may be that the University will accept them, perhaps even tenure them, and then isolate them in a permanent minority enclave