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However, not everyone who witnessed the general's address came away impressed. "Marshall's plan meant nothing to me at the time," says Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Literature and Languages Emeritus. Hammond serves as "caller" on the platform at Commencement and has seen almost every ceremony since his own graduation...
...David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, believes Commencement has become too political...
Thomas Professor of The History of Science Emeritus, is intellectually allied with Thomas Kuhn, whose publication in 1962 of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offered a fresh way of analyzing the history of scientific discovery. Cohen accepts the essential tenets of Kuhn's revolutionary treatise. Like Kuhn, Cohen rejects the evolutionary or cumulative explanation of the turnover of scientific knowledge in favor of the theory that scientific changes are unpredictable, profound intellectual developments that completely modify the way people think about an area of inquiry...
Elmer Harp Jr. '35, now professor of Anthropology emeritus at Dartmouth, was one such student. He took a leave of absence after his freshman year and eventually graduated in 1938. "A whole year could be done comfortably for $1200, but I didn't have a lot of money to throw around," Harp recalls...
...didn't travel much for vacation, but the setting at the college was so comfortable and interesting I don't think anyone felt deprived at being penniless," says Edward W. Fox '35, professor of History emeritus at Cornell...