Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American infants, for instance, eat Gerber passion fruit and guava...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered no permanent courses in the field of Latin American Studies. The Robert C. Bliss Professorship of Latin American History and Economics, the University's only endowed chair in the area, had been vacant for eight years. While undergraduates and graduate students interested in Latin America looked elsewhere for instruction, the attitude of the various departments seemed to be one of indifference. During the past five years, significant changes have been made. In the coming academic year over twenty courses will be offered in the area. However, the results have been spotty, and the prospects...
Realizing the steed for a program in this long neglected field, Dean of the Faculty MacGeorge Bundy established a student-faculty and interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies in 1960. Bundy directed the Committee to concern itself with the formation of a "community of Latin American Scholars." The accomplishments of the Committee have been impressive on the junior faculty, senior faculty and student levels...
...first actions of the Committee was the nomination of the Bliss Fellows. Four young scholars in the social sciences were promised future faculty appointments and offered extensive travel and research grants if they would convert themselves into Latin American experts. Meanwhile, the Committee, through its executive secretary William Barnes, began the inevitable search for funds from sources outside the University. The initial results were quite good. For the past two years Harvard has shared with five other universities a Ford Foundation grant of $1 million for a faculty exchange program. Young Latin American professors, such as Helio Jaquaribe, Visiting Lecturer...
...senior faculty level, two new chairs have been endowed. Enrique Anderson-Imbert has been named Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic American Literature. The Monroe Gutman Professorship in Latin American Studies has been given to the Argentine sociologist, Gino Germani. Three permanent posts have been filled by noted scholars with an interest in Latin America. Professors Hirschman, Pary, and Maybury-Lewis have been appointed in Economics, History and Anthropology respectively...