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...usually dismissed by their colleagues as "doctors who don't know enough to be professors." Even at Harvard, where the dean of the faculty of medicine heads both the medical and dental schools and is a recognized leader in his profession, the then president, James Bryant Conant, 16 years ago had to convince the man of his choice that "Harvard furnishes an excellent vantage point from which to make a contribution to medical education...
...Conant convinced was George Packer Berry (A.B., Princeton, '21; M.D., Johns Hopkins, '25) who had almost as much experience as a patient as he had as a physician. A microbiologist, Berry had suffered a miserable, lingering attack of psittacosis ("parrot fever") and another of hepatitis while studying viral infections...
Last week, at 66, Dr. Berry retired from the deanship. Said James Conant: "This appointment was the best job I ever did while president of Harvard." To succeed Dr. Berry, President Nathan M. Pusey has recruited Dr. Robert Higgins Ebert, 50, from the determinedly progressive medical faculty of Western Reserve. Son of a physician and brother of another, Minneapolis-born Dean Ebert (A.B., Chicago, '36; Rhodes scholar and D. Phil., Oxford, '39; M.D., Chicago, '42) now has one of the most difficult assignments a medical man can have: being...
Eleven speakers will definitely be on hand, including Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics and Martin Peretz, instructor in Social Studies...
...single greatest peril to our economic health." That philosophy did not endear him to the New Deal, but during World War II, F.D.R. nonetheless named him special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. In the early war years, Baruch occasionally met with Harvard President James Bryant Conant and M.I.T. President Karl Comptonon an oak bench in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to discuss an official report on rubber resources. That bench -facing the wrong end of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson-became Baruch's symbol...