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...possibilities is that there should be a whole different Core area devoted to QRR," says Hollis Professor of Mathematics Andrew M. Gleason, head of the QRR subcommittee. "We could have a larger mandate, a situation under which we are not operating under an extracurricular basis...
...Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive eased sophomores' pain yesterday, admitting some of them to his Literature and Arts B course after announcing hours before study cards were due last week that they would be cut from the class...
...even better example of incomprehensible decision-making comes from the "Lotteries Working for You" file. On Wednesday, the last day of shopping period, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive informed the sophomores in attendance at Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt," that they were no longer welcome in the course. Many sophomores, however, had attended the three previous lectures without any expectation they would be axed. In fact, several had already turned in their study cards that morning before class...
...other major change since Yale is the recasting of Boy Willie with Charles S. Dutton, who gives a performance as energized as his Tony-nominated Broadway debut in Ma Rainey. Puffing his cheeks, waving his arms, hopping around like Jackie Gleason in a one-legged jig, the burly Dutton seems a rustic buffoon. But when conversation turns to conflict, his jaw tightens and the clowning stops. In Boy Willie, Dutton and Wilson achieve that rarity in literature, a truly common, ordinary man of heroic force...
...Gleason then returned to the Navy and served two years in the Korean War. He returned to Harvard in 1952 to become an assistant professor of math, a full faculty member in 1957 and the Hollis Professor of Mathematiks and Natural Sciences chair 12 years later...