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...Russia is Ruled. Merle Fainsod. Revised...
Wilson is also a member of the Press's Board of Directors, the body which controls the Press finances. Its ex officio chairman is L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president. Other members are George Pierce Baker, '25, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration; Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library; Erwin N. Griswold. Dean of the Faculty of Law: Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and Donald Scott, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus. The Board members are appointed by the President and Fellows of the University, and their distinction is a measure of Harvard's acceptance...
...addition to Dunlop, the members of the new Committee of Seven are Herschel C. Baker, professor of English; Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and J. C. Street, Professor of Physics
David Gordon's comments, reported in the same story, avoid humility like the plague. Anyone who calls the lecture system "antediluvian" has obviously not listened to Fainsod or Maass or Friedrich or Banfield or Kissingers in the Government Department. His suggestion that students should get credit for their own seminars, with or without Faculty supervision, may be an excellent way to encourage bull sessions (as if they needed encouragement), but it is also overweeningly pretentious and not likely to produce much serious scholarship...
...Merle Fainsod, Member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration, spent a month in Malaysia last year studying government administrative problems...