James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, yesterday outlined some of the themes of his committee’s investigations at his appearance before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. At the same meeting a reply from Dean Watson to the SFAC’s request that he explain his remarks about “sons of […]
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James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, has agreed to meet with the Student-Faculty Advisory Council today. The meeting will be open to the public and is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Winthrop House junior common room. SFAC members had expressed a desire to exchange […]
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The Student-Faculty Advisory Council yesterday asked Dean Watson to explain his recent statements that a small group of radicals is behind most serious student unrest at Harvard. The council voted 22-3, with two abstentions, to ask Watson to “prepare for this body an explanation of the statements attributed to him in the October 1 CRIMSON.” […]
The Student Faculty Advisory Committe will consider a change in its membership at its first meeting of the academic year today. The committee, set up last year in the wake of the Dow demonstration, will meet at 3 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The student members of the SFAC were elected by […]
Tuition at Harvard College will be increased by the unprecedented sum of $400. Tuition at present 〉 is $2000 having been raised only last year from $1760. The Corporation has not voted on the increase yet, but it is expected to approve it in which case the new tuition of $2400 will be charged this […]
The Student-Faculty Advisory Committee is a unique Harvard institution. It is a joint body which meets regularly and whose student members, at least, have been elected by their fellow students. This year’s Faculty representatives, on the other hand, were directly appointed by President Pusey- -but the membership seemed to reflect the entire range of Faculty […]
MCGEORGE Bundy haunted Harvard last week, bringing back with him a conception of society and man’s role in it that has recently come to be discredited around here. His argument, astringent and eloquent was, despite weaknesses, ultimately reassuring. The Godkin topic was “To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions,” and Bundy’s message was […]
The public must exercise its “maximum practicable participation” in the governing process, McGeorge Bundy said last night in the concluding Godkin Lecture. But such participation, he said, can only come about if the Executive power is strengthened. “The way to give a share of power to the people,” he said, “is first to give real […]
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McGeorge Bundy warned yesterday that the “existing system of government in the United States, already dangerously weak, needs a double dose of reinforcement–to meet both its present and future responsibilities.” He was delivering this year’s second Godkin Lecture. Recognizing the present weakness at all levels of government–state and local as well as legislative and judiciary, […]
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