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...their own judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. “History is probably one of the best fields to team teach.”Team-taught humanities courses are often divided chronologically.“It’s a little better to do this kind of thing with a team...
When conservatives on the Board tried to block the appointment of economist John Kenneth Galbraith in 1948, for example, University President James Bryant Conant ’14 threatened to resign if the Overseers did not confirm the appointment. As Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70 recounts in his book, “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience,” the Overseers promptly backed...
Many fellows, the Kellers write, felt overwhelmed by the Corporation’s vast and disorganized administrative processes. Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, who had previously served as the Board of Overseers’ president, declared in his second year as a Corporation fellow, “I’m sick and tired of being tossed a bowl of untreated sewage to consider for the next meeting...
...mess,” the committee member says. “That almost surely had an impact on our ability to deal with the issues at hand. Most people on the committee considered resigning, it was so unpleasant.” And History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says that Summers and Kirby “couldn’t work together effectively” to promote the review. “They couldn’t speak together with one enthusiastic voice about what to put forward,” he says.Some involved with...
...plans to expand after the resignation of Summers, with the potential to become one of the main players in FAS politics far into the future. “Christie had a very tough job in the fall and did a great job,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, one of the Caucus’s two coordinators this semester, along with the environmental science and public policy concentration chair, James J. McCarthy.THE FOUNDATIONWhen the then-acting chair of the folklore and mythology program, Jan Ziolkowski, began to organize informal meetings of department...