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...thought we lived in an enchanted world of great men. We found that when they [the rest of the Faculty] gave in to student demands they were in many ways worse than the national average in terms of civil courage,"--Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History, a hardliner during the Harvard strike...
Faculty members are used for activities other than recuitment. Some analyze material for the agency: Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, for example. This seems unobjectionable at first sight, even essential if the agency is to be successful. But it has subtle perils for both the academic and the CIA. The former's academic integrity can be insidiously compromised by the CIA feeding information to him selectively so that any prejudices are reinforced and events become distorted in his interpretation. It is arguable for example that the ideology of certain professors in the social sciences at the Massachusetts Institute...
After some preliminary digging, Chung discovered a little-known ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Baird versus Belotti in January 1977. The court ruled that, in all cases except abortion, a "mature minor" may receive confidential medical treatment where it is in his/her best interest not to notify the parents...
...Teaching of Writing--seminar with Robert Fitzgerald, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Dudley Herschbach, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science; Richard Marius, senior lecturer on Expository Writing; and B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Science Center...
...smoulder inside despite several attempts to douse the fire with water, and the fire extinguishers on the first and second floors refused to work for the students. "Then I ran up to the third floor and found the nozzle of the fire extinguisher there covered with masking tape," Baird said...