Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the strongest possible objection to the sentence you have published about me in the Registration Issue of The Harvard Crimson ("Harvard Stays Mum on Greek Bequest"). The sentence reads, "Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report..." That is a deliberately misleading sentence, inasmuch as your use of "would" implies that you asked me to confirm or deny a report that the Greek government had given Harvard one million dollars. The simple fact is that your reporter never even mentioned such a rumor in either of our two telephone conversations...
...seems the University has been toying with the idea of a program in modern Greek studies for nearly ten years. More than 30,000 modern Greek books line Widener's shelves--probably the best collection of its kind outside of Greece. But reams of books aren't enough to goad Harvard into spending money. Dean Rosovsky recommended a professorship in the field to the Corporation last winter after he was petitioned from outside the University...
...slim blue brochure that falls open like an accordion to reveal a thumbnail photo on each of its rectangular faces (among these are Bok, the chair's namesake George Seferis and an ancient Greek coin labeled "The Cost") was printed this summer. Apparently, that's about the extent of Harvard's participation in the campaign for funds. When asked if the University Development Office was actively arranging for the chair, Charles D. Thompson '48 replied that "actively is a funny word; my office is handling a lot of programs at this point" and conceded that, unlike with other programs...
...least psychologically, a vigorous push to finance the Program for Modern Greek Studies seems like a pretty shrewd move right now. Reliable sources contend that Constantine A. Trypanis, the Greek Minister of Civilization and Culture, spent two days in Cambridge last July to clinch an agreement on the chair between Harvard and the Greek government. Trypanis left a check for $1 million to endow the George Seferis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies. A lump sum of $2 million will make the entire program feasible by providing for an assistant professorship, two graduate student fellowships and library funds...
Harvard's willingness to cover for the Greek government is more mysterious. It may simply be a symptom of the ambivalence that has marked the administration's approach to modern Greek studies all along: The program was initiated from outside; it was designed at a slow pace; and according to President Horner, it has not even been discussed by the Faculty Council...