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...Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and director of the Russian Research Center, will become director of the Harvard University Library on July 1, it was announced yesterday. Fainsod succeeds Paul H. Buck in the post as Library head and also as Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor...
Bryant will be responsible for day-to-day management of the 7 million volume library, the third largest in the U.S., while Fainsod will deal with major questions of policy. Bryant will also take charge of directing the Harvard College Library, which includes Widener, Lamont, Houghton, and the Fine Arts Library, or about one-half the entire University collection. Previously supervision of the College Library has been under the aegis of the director...
...also heard a minute on the late Arthur Darby Nock, who was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, delivered by Zeph Stewart, Professor of Greek and Latin. A minute on the late V.O. Key, who was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, was delivered by Merie Fainsod, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Political Sciences...
...Bergson, Fainsod's successor at the Research Center, is on a leave of absence while working at the Ford Foundation's Center for Behavioural Sciences in Stanford, Calif...
...assuming the Williams chair, Fainsod--whose present title is professor of Government--will succeed William Y. Elliott, now teaching at American University in Washington, D.C. Elliott retired from the Harvard Faculty last June...