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Three professors from the University of Leningrad, who will be the first to visit Harvard under a faculty-exchange program proposed three years ago, have applied to the State Department for visas...
Notified of the Soviet action Friday, Edward L. Pattulla, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, also announced that James H. Billington, assistant professor of History, will lecture at Leningrad in March. Billington in an eighteenth century Russian historian, currently studying in Finland on a leave of absence...
Regretting the fact that the University of Leningrad chose only scientists to visit the Soviet Union, Pattullo hopes that the Russians will follow Harvard's example of inviting professors from the humanities and the social sciences. The expected arrival of the Russians, he said, indicates a change in spirit by the Soviets, perhaps prompted by a desire for better relations with the new Kennedy administration...
Although the University has received no official word from Leningrad, Pattullo assumes that all nine invited faculty members will arrive some time during the Spring Term...
...this time only two Harvard professors have taken part in the exchange. Last May, Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, lectured on seventeenth century Dutch painting at Leningrad; and in December, Richard M. Goody, professor of Meteorology, spent 20 days at Moscow and Leningrad Universities...