Word: baird
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...Mismeasure of Man" is the first book written by a scientist to win a Book Critics' Circle award, though others, including "Sociobiology" by E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, have been nominated in the past...
Screening the nominees will be the "Corporation-Overseers-Faculty Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees." This year's members are: Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the College; Joan T. Bok '51, an Overseer; Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird Professor of Science; Robert J. Kiely, professor of English; George W. MacRae, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies; Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History; Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; and Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development...
...various fusses, of course, things went on pretty much as usual. The Summer School students--almost 5000 of them, more than ever before in the school's history--came and went, many of them studying computer science or English as a second language during their stay. Dudley Herschbach. Baird Professor of Science, was named the new master of Currier House, and S. Allen Counter, associate professor of Neuroscience, was picked to head the new race relations foundation. And then the class of 1985 arrived, 1604 strong, so the cycle can begin again...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History. A specialist in pre-revolutionary Russia, Pipes now is the National Security Council's chief Soviet expert. Hawkish on defense issues, Pipes is a bitter enemy of the Soviets, whom he considers dangerous expansionists and implacable foes of the United States. Pipes got himself into hot water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been...
...were debates about the meaning of the GOP sweep, the future of the Democratic party and the role of the far right. As the Ivy League analysis of the Reagan victory last November dragged on into the winter, a number of Harvard faculty members--most prominently, Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History who is now the senior Soviet-Eastern Europe specialist on the National Security Council--journeyed to Washington to participate in the making of history themselves...