Word: cohen
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Died. Felix S. (for Solomon) Cohen, 46, son of the late Legal Philosopher Morris Cohen and lawyer-champion of the American Indian, who, in a series of state court battles, successfully defended the rights of Indians to vote (1948), to trial under due process of law (1950), to receive Social Security benefits (1953); of cancer; in Washington...
...least one freshman last year learned that Cohen will go to any lengths to make a point. This seemingly bored student was lounging over a couple of seats, absorbed in Cambridge's only Breakfast Table Daily when Cohen spied him. Bounding up the endless stairs to the top row of Burr B, he snatched the paper out of the bewildered scholar's hands and shouted, "The Crimson is a fine paper--outside of class...
...addition to authoring several scientific treatises, Cohen has broadened the understanding of his own field by many contributions explaining the interplay of science and society. His newest work, Benjamin Franklin is one of the "Makers of the American Tradition Series." And recently, on the retirement of George Sarton, he took over as chairman of Isis, the organ of the History of Science school...
Reminiscing about his childhood school days, Cohen admits, "I was in a group of boys with exceptionally high IQ's who were chosen to complete their education at Dalton, an ultra-progressive school. Our introduction to progressive education didn't last long, though, because they couldn't hold us down. Anyway, I graduated when I was fifteen...
Unlike many of his colleagues, Cohen has no worries about the future, "I've got an Associate Professorship with a relatively small, if popular, department; and I am a non resident Tutor in Eliot House. A full Professorship? I don't think about such things. They just seem to happen...