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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered no permanent courses in the field of Latin American Studies. The Robert C. Bliss Professorship of Latin American History and Economics, the University's only endowed chair in the area, had been vacant for eight years. While undergraduates and graduate students interested in Latin America looked elsewhere for instruction, the attitude of the various departments seemed to be one of indifference. During the past five years, significant changes have been made. In the coming academic year over twenty courses will be offered in the area. However, the results have been spotty, and the prospects...
...first actions of the Committee was the nomination of the Bliss Fellows. Four young scholars in the social sciences were promised future faculty appointments and offered extensive travel and research grants if they would convert themselves into Latin American experts. Meanwhile, the Committee, through its executive secretary William Barnes, began the inevitable search for funds from sources outside the University. The initial results were quite good. For the past two years Harvard has shared with five other universities a Ford Foundation grant of $1 million for a faculty exchange program. Young Latin American professors, such as Helio Jaquaribe, Visiting Lecturer...
...reliable sources, the Department was offered the Gutman Chair. However, after two years passed without a nomination by the Department, Social Relations was given the opportunity to nominate Gino Germani. In the field of modern Latin American History there is only one junior, and no senior, faculty member. The Bliss professorship remain vacant...
...monologues and John Hoffman's as Dr. Thomas contain all the best moments in the play. As Martin and Lisa, David Gordon and Maeve Kinkead manage to be funny without sacrificing character and vice versa, although neither can quite transcend a scene in which they manifest their romantic bliss into song...
Charles A. Bliss, professor of Business Administration, has been appointed to the new Royal Little Professorship of Business Administration. Bliss helped to develop the Business School's courses in management control and is one of the original instructors in the Program for Management Development. He has taught at the Business School for nearly 30 years...