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Harvard's junior fellows over the years have gone on to win 13 Nobel Prizes (four in 1981) and uncounted Pulitzers. Recalls M.I.T. Economist Carl Kaysen of his years as a fellow: "I was able to range more widely and do things I would not have done as a conventional graduate student." Sociologist George Homans, a fellow from 1934 to 1939, says of the society: "Its record is absolutely terrific. There have been imitations, but nobody's in a class with...
...Livable Future" at Harvard's cavernous Sanders Theater, there was no shortage of academic talent on hand. Significantly, though, Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky and other panelists had trouble deciding what kind of "literacy" they meant: Should it be the traditional "literacy of expression"? Or what Professor Carl Kaysen of M.I.T. described as "scientific literacy," to be attained through less Latin and more physics and calculus...
Harvard professors also serve the government without forsaking academia for Washington, as consultants and through various research contracts. At Harvard this has resulted in the invention of napalm in Mallinckrodt laboratory and the origination of the electronic battlefield by Professors Kaysen and Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs...
...Kaysen said changes in taxation would cause upward mobility in the lower income levels. Kaysen also said that the increase in the level of education would cause increased distribution of political participation and especially an increased number of people on the activist end of the spectrum...
...Kaysen discussed the distribution of wealth, income and political power and the trends towards equity in the past few decades in these three areas. He also speculated on the trends of the next decade...