Word: dreben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department really wants to fool the president and dean, it can do it," Dreben adds. "I don't sit there like some intelligence officer...
...Dreben, in general, likens his administrative duties to those of "a glorified clerk." His appearance seems to bear out this characterization. Short and balding at 56 years of age. Dreben sits behind a huge desk in his Emerson Hall office, surrounded by swarms of paper, manuscripts and envelopes--many of them stamped "Confidential...
...behind Dreben's unprepossessing appearance is a mind described as sharp, broadminded--and unconventional And his influence is by no means limited to tenure matters...
Even though he never received his Ph.D. Dreben is one of the most highly respected and sought-after members of the Philosophy Department--by professors and graduate students alike. And as head of the Society of Fellows, he runs the select Harvard organization that brings highly promising graduate students here for three free no-strings-attached years of pure research...
...Dreben is also a close friend of Rosovsky's and a long-standing member of the dean's small "kitchen cabinet" of academic deans. This council--which also includes, among others, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 and Dean of the Graduate School Edward L. Keenan '57--carries much of the Faculty's administrative load...