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Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, will send several of the key ideas from the History of Science 150 papers to President Bok and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University next week. He said yesterday the assignment was suggested by students in the class who had expressed concern to him in the past weeks over the prospects of a Harvard-owned DNA company. "Tossing the question back to them seemed like the natural step," he added...
...welcome advice and thought from any quarter on the DNA issue," Steiner said yesterday, adding "It seems very plausible that Professor Mendelsohn's exercise would help us through this complex problem...
...Mendelsohn asked the class to use historical precedents to examine possible social consequences of a DNA company at Harvard. "If universities are to remain the centers for the development of new knowledge, we are all going to have to start questioning the standard of technological utility and commercial profit as a guideline for scientific research," Mendelsohn said yesterday...
Several students and proctors spoke at the meeting, noting the need for tolerance and stressing the psychological injury offensive graffiti can cause individuals and "the community", Jeffrey Mendelsohn '84, a student who spoke at the meeting, said yesterday...
...interpretation of the Shakespeare play, directed by Alvin Epstein, replaced Mendelsohn's traditional, romantic music with a Henry Purcell score but retained all of Shakespeare's dialogue in what Brustein described as "an extraordinary combination of fidelity and originality...