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Alexander Gerschenkron, Barker Professor of Economics Emeritus, died Thursday in Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He was 74 years...
...Russian-born economist and economic historian, Gerschenkron came to the United States in 1938 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley until 1942. He joined the Faculty in 1948 and taught here until his retirement...
...never been unduly constrained by the Resolution, but now it was free from even the slightest outside influence. Operating with conservative Faculty members and no students, the Committee was free to interpret and enforce a resolution of which Alexander Gerschenkron. Barker Professor of Economics said: "Every word is a rubber band that can be expanded and contracted at will," Over the next two years, the CRR defined more and more actions as punishable violations of the Resolution...
...activity peaked following the Cambodian invasion and the accompanying student strike of May 1970. About 60 people were disciplined on a new charge--being part of a group that staged a disruptive picket line around University Hall. Gerschenkron's rubber band had expanded still farther--no longer was it necessary to demonstrate that a person charged had himself violated the Resolution. Now the Administration merely had to place the defendant in a group that was engaged in some form of disruption. Each individual was held responsible for the acts of all, and more students took involuntary vacations from Harvard...
...Gerschenkron called the resolution "a piece of pernicious journalese." and said. "I am and must remain the sole judge of my opinions...