Word: mahere
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Leary "managed to sell a lot of students on the idea that you can get wisdom and insight from a pill, that drugs were a short cut," said Henderson Professor of Psychology Brendan A. Maher, who was then acting as the co-chair of the Department of Personality...
...Maher said yesterday that Leary's method of research included administering psilocybin to graduate students at informal settings, including parties...
...Maher said Leary and Alpert knew little about the side effects of psilocybin and were not trained in pharmacology...
...circumstances under which Leary left Harvard remain a matter of debate. Leary alleged for years that he was fired by Harvard, but Maher denied yesterday that Leary's position at Harvard had been terminated as a result of his experiments...
According to Maher, President Nathan M. Pusey '28 gave Leary leave without pay after the lecturer left Harvard for Hollywood midway through the spring semester of 1963. Leary's contract with Harvard was due to expire at the end of the spring 1963 semester...