Word: distinguishedness
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Two former Harvard deans have each been granted one of the University’s highest honors—the newly-created position of the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.
Both Knowles and Clark will be officially referred to as Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor as of July 1.
“Both Jeremy Knowles and Bob Clark have served their faculties and the University with extraordinary leadership and distinction,” said University Lawrence H. Summers in a release announcing the appointments. “This seems a fitting way to honor their long and distinguished service...
Verba, already a distinguished political scientist upon his arrival at Harvard, began his rise through the University’s ranks in 1977 when he became chair of the government department.
“They liked his being religious, being a humanist, being a college man, in other words they liked everything about him that distinguished him from Conant,” Keller says.