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...whole of the deaning office has been weakened,” Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has seen eight different deans in his time at Harvard, said recently. “I think parts of it run quite well. Other parts need a new leader to come along and provide a philosophy of what a deanship will...
...vote.”The gap between approval and implementation after the last curricular review was about one year. The Faculty endorsed the Core Curriculum in spring 1978, and the new program took effect for freshmen entering in fall 1979. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has taught at Harvard since the 1960s, recalled a two-year transition period in which both general education and Core courses were offered. He said the details of the Core’s implementation were also left to a committee.In an interview before yesterday’s meeting, Mendelsohn said...
...Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden.Glenda R. Carpio, assistant professor of African and African American studies, and Alison F. Frank, assistant professor of history, were honored with the Abramson Award for Undergraduate Teaching.Hochschild, who teaches African and African American studies in addition to government, also received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.—Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...name Knowles’ successor—some professors have questioned whether the dean’s plan will proceed even after his tenure ends. “It will most certainly be high on the agenda for the next dean,” said Everett I. Mendelsohn, a history of science professor and member of the Faculty Council, the governing body of the FAS. “Dean Knowles laid out the issues as he sees them. It’s a highly laudable step, but the real discussion is just beginning. Next year we will see some intense...
...recombined was a Rogers trademark. In that, he was an original, but also a great synthesizer. He drew inspiration from the engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as stripped down and functional as a suspension bridge, but also from the Expressionism of Erich Mendelsohn, the German architect who brought a sensual component to Modernism. What Rogers arrived at was a way to make high tech not just lucid but surprising. Modernism expelled applied ornament. But by making an explosive aesthetic use of the raw, unadorned elements of a building, Rogers showed that...