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The View from the Top
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1. Curti, Merle, “The History of American Philanthropy as a Field of Research,” American Historical Review, 62 (1956).Google Scholar
2. Representative of the viewpoint of the right is Wormser, Rene A., Foundations, Their Power and Influence (New York, 1968); of the left, Horowitz, David and Kolodney, David, “The Foundations: Charity Begins at Home,” Ramparts, 7 (April 1968); and Horowitz, David, “Sinews of Empire,” Ramparts, 7 (May 1968).Google Scholar
3. See, for example, Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy, Foundations, Private Giving, and Public Policy: Report and Recommendations (Chicago, 1972); and Cuninggim, Merrimon, Private Money and Public Service: The Role of Foundations in American Society (New York, 1972).Google Scholar
4. See particulary the essays in Arnove, Robert F. (ed.), Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad (Boston, 1980).Google Scholar
5. Cf. the recent conclusions contained in Weischadle, David E., “Carnegie: A Case Study in How Foundations Make Decisions,” Phi Delta Kappan (October, 1977):108, viz., “Until recently, when a black, several women (from the professions), and a union official were added, the Carnegie board of trustees was predominantly male, well over 40 in average age, white, Protestant, and involved in business, law, banking, or the operation of other foundations. The members lived in the northeast, and with few exceptions were graduates of Harvard and Yale—in some cases both.” A similar conclusion is reached in Whitaker, Ben, The Philanthropoids: Foundations and Society (New York, 1974), pp. 88–90.Google Scholar
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16. This problem was just below the surface of the debate that was aired in the pages of The New York Review of Books in 1977 over Harvard University's role vis-à-vis its faculty during the McCarthy era. At issue was one of the volumes commissioned by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman's Education and Politics at Harvard. In his review Sigmund Diamond quotes Carnegie Foundation and Carnegie Corporation president Alan Pifer's assessment of the work of the Commission, which according to Pifer, “has been dispassionate, objective, fair-minded, factually based, and imbued with a sense of pragmatic realism.” The thrust of Diamond's article, charging Harvard's collusion with the FBI during the McCarthy era to ferret out ex-communists and “sympathizers” from the university's faculty, is that the book's description of the events of the period was not objective, fair-minded, or factually-based. See his “Veritas at Harvard,” The New York Review of Books (April 28, 1977): 13–17. A discussion of the book in question is the subject of Gruber, Carol S., “The View from the Harvard Yard,” History of Education Quarterly, 19 (Summer 1979).Google Scholar
17. British social commentator Laski, Harold J. addressed this issue over fifty years ago, after spending time observing the relationship between American universities and the foundations of the day. See “Foundations, Universities, and Research,” in Laski, Harold J., The Dangers of Disobedience and Other Essays (New York and London, 1930).Google Scholar
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