Word: irven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday. Cavell's proposal will be on the docket, along with two others. One, by Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College, asks the Faculty to resolve that "new and extraordinary means be found to involve black students in the Afro-American Studies program." The other, by B. Irven DeVore, associate professor of Anthropology, suggests an interim solution of placing three students chosen by Afro on the Standing Committee, Afro representatives will probably be invited to attend Tuesday's Faculty meeting...
...these predispositions is to study the behavior of man's nearest neighbors, the monkeys and great apes-and to study them not just in the zoo or laboratory but in their natural habitat. In studying the baboon, for example, Berkeley Anthropologist Sherwood L. Washburn and his Harvard disciple, Irven DeVore, are concerned mainly with what this primate can reveal about man. The baboon's hierarchical society, commanded by dominant males, suggests the fundamental pattern to which man's ancestors may have subscribed, long before marriage was invented. So far no primate study has turned up a societal...
Unless you already find anthropology interesting, the courses at Harvard are unlikely to sell you on the subject. Most of the professors are good though not often brilliant in their fields, and few lecture well. Boyd Irven DeVore, William W. Howel and one or two others are both good and entertaining teachers, but most are both dry and cautious...
...Irven B. DeVore, now at the University of California, will probably assist Howells in the course. A social anthropologist known for his studies of wild baboons, DeVore plans to spend this summer investigating the bushmen of South Africa...