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...Abram Bergson, Taussig Research Professor, will succeed Kuznets as Baker Professor of Economics July 1. He has been a professor at Harvard since...
...This rule points up another obscure, but actual Faculty corollary, passed last January, called the Bergson Rule. The Bergson Rule, named after Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, says that if any proposal is passed at a Faculty meeting attended by less than a third of the Faculty, the next meeting has a right to overrule the motion. This tidbit is mentioned only to show how absurdly formalistic the Faculty has now become...
...poetry. He has presented the first really competent and thorough discussion of Stevens' early work, most of which appeared in the Harvard Advocute and which Stevens later said gave him "the creeps" when re-eading them, and he is extremely helpful in tracing the formative influences on Stevens: Pater, Bergson, and especially George Santayana, who was a friend and teacher of Stevens while he was at Harvard. Morse's discussion of Stevens' three plays, with their curious chinoiserie, fanciful staging, and playfully symbolic characters is intelligent and helpful. And his account of the poems that were added, deleted, and emended...
...This rule points up another obscure, but actual Faculty corollary, passed last January, called the Bergson Rule. The Bergson Rule, named after Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, says that if any proposal is passed at a Faculty meeting attended by less than a third of the Faculty, the next meeting has a right to over-rule the motion. This tidbit is mentioned only to show how absurdly formalistic the Faculty has now become...
...Bergson proposed the addition of the words "whenever circumstances permit" after the phrase "officers are expected...