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...American Presbyterian minister. Last week, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut began its centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...
...University also honored three prominent scientists: John Rock '15, Clinical Professor of Gynecology, Emeritus and a pioneer in birth control (LL.D.); John H. Van Vleck, former dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...
...only woman to receive an honorary degree was Martha Graham, the dancer and choreographer, who was honored with a Doctor of Arts. Alexander Calder, the sculptor, also received a Doctor of Arts, and poet-critic Mark Van Doren, Professor of English, Emeritus, at Columbia University received a Doctor of Letters. Also honored was Saul Lieberman, professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions and Dean of the Graduate Department and of the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, who received a Doctor of Letters...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Emeritus, died Sunday at his home in Madison...
This very point came into perspective at a recent Leverett House Junior-Senior dinner during a speech by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. MacLeish pointed to the other senior faculty members at the head table, such as Mark DeWolfe Howe and Howard Manford Jones, and called for a return to the traditional Harvard values. He derided the concept of the University as a vocational school and insisted upon education for its own sake. Many present observed that MacLeish was making the same demands as Mario Savio and the other leaders of the Free Speech Movement. Ironically...