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...Hamilton A. R. Gibb of Oxford University, a world-famed authority on the Middle East, will join the faculty as the newest University Professor starting next July...
...Gibb, who will also serve as the Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, will take a large part in research and teaching in the Center of Middle Eastern Studies, President Pusey said yesterday...
...Professor Gibb is one of the very greatest living Arabists," William L. Langer '15, director of the Center, said last night. "Even a non-Harvard man would agree that his selection puts Harvard in the front rank of institutions in this field...
Colleague Praises Gibb...
Last week another Shah, 34-year-old Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, journeyed to Isfahan, Iran's third city, to celebrate the completion of the project. Foreigners had come to the aid of the Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...