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Getting ahold of Burton S. Dreben '49 is like playing a shell game...
...might try his Emerson Hall office, where he works as Pierce Professor of Philosophy. You could call University Hall, where Dreben serves as special assistant to the Dean of the Faculty. Or you could drop by 78 Mt. Aubum St., headquarters of the prestigious Society of Fellows, of which Dreben is in charge...
...chances are you won't find him anywhere Dreben, one of the Faculty's busiest members, seems to travel from role to role in a blur that rarely materializes in any one office...
Many of the fellows stay on at Harvard as faculty members. Some have even proved Lowell's thesis that a Ph.D. is not necessary for scholarship. Political Scientist McGeorge Bundy, who became Harvard's dean of arts and sciences, and Society of Fellows Chairman Burton Dreben, a former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, never took the degree. Excellence is the society's reason for being, and excellence is Harvard's reward. Says Dreben: "With all the compromises we make, there has to be true support of pure scholarship, the inquiry into knowledge...
...Dreben said the letter is "realistic," adding, "If there's anything at Harvard that could stand the most serious scrutiny, it's this system...