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Arthur Smithies, Ropes Professor of Political Economy Emeritus and a former master of Kirkland House, died of a heart attack at the Cambridge Boat Club last Wednesday after rowing on the Charles River. He was 73 years...
...Unlike many economists, Smithies correctly believed that the difference between a good economist and an inferior one is his sense of history," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said Friday. Smithies was "one of the most popular and engaging members of the Harvard Economics department," Galbraith added...
...have been plain dull recently." Lord says, but her office has had to work hard on the continuing sagas of town-and-gown relations, and racial tensions on campus, as well as the occasional shenanigans of the school's professors. This spring, for instance, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus, put himself in the middle of an international war of words when he announced that nuclear-armed American ships have docked in Japan since the time he was ambassador to that country. "We really had to do some moving on that one," says Lord, shaking her head...
...photographer Ansel Adams and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, both confirmed yesterday that they will receive honorary degrees Thursday. In addition, representatives of the opera singer Leontyne Price indicated yesterday that she is also a recipient...
David Riesman, '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Emeritus and president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kapa chapter, also presented the society's first teaching awards to Deborah Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor in Mathematics, and Leonard K. Nash, professor of Chemistry...