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...Center first defined was twofold--for wider knowledge, and for men to apply that knowledge to foreign affairs. Accordingly, a staff of permanent faculty members was established to complement a Fellows Program, in which "practitioners"--diplomats, government officials and military officials of all nationalities--could spend a year in academia...
Henry Rosovsky has served Harvard well. No doubt he will continue to do so--next year, as he ties up loose ends, and afterwards, as he returns to the academia he so plainly misses. So it is not with disrespect that we say that Derek Bok, in looking for a replacement for Henry Rosovsky, should not be looking for another Henry Rosovsky. The dean has been a dedicated curator, but his successor should have an interest in the parts of Harvard's "national treasure" that Rosovsky neglected to polish...
...labs in the last quarter of the 20th century" as an exercised in studying America's fascination with get rich quick schemes. The passing of such a short lived profession is all the more poignant given its subject matter. Whether technicians or scientists scholars or vultures, contract archaeologists and academia's "commitment" to cultural research have proven vulnerable to economic and social trends just like the rest...
...point is that the study of settlement in the New World, particularly New England, should not be judged like a business. The present administration in Washington is not overly concerned with preservation, conservation, or cultural resource management. If academia is unwilling to serve as the repositories for our history past and present to whom can one turn 'Federal and state governments with limited public resources and political biases, are not obvious candidates...
...everyone. Students say that he is not the most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...