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President Pusey yesterday announced the appointment of Laurence Wylie, a Haverford professor, to the newly created C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France...
...interest is now low, this does not preclude a future increase in interest. Last June, the H.A.A. dropped lacrosse and golf as varsity sports, and reduced support for club-teams in sailing, skiing, rifle, and pistol--a savings of $15,000 annually (about the salary of a full professor...
...wartime careers of Faculty members, that of Samuel Eliot Morison '08, now Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History, Emeritus, stands out. His work as naval historian of the war earned him the inevitable comparison with Thucydides--and he richly deserves it. It was not long after Pearl Harbor that Morison had the brain wave that resulted in a brilliant 13-volume history of U. S. naval operations. Even before the December 7 disaster he had become a prominent spokesman on maritime affairs. His active pre-war support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin...
According to Taylor, "one of the great public servants in the war" was his own colleague in the History Department, Coolidge Professor William L. Langer '15, who directed the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff...
According to Langer, "the Harvard contingent in OSS was a very powerful one;" included in that group were mostly History Department people, but here and there a professor of something else was accepted. Such a man is Milton Katz, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law. After a period as Solicitor for the War Production Board and U.S. Executive Officer of the Combined Production and Resources Board (U.S. Britain-Canada)-- work which involved planning industrial mobilization for war--Katz in 1943 joined the Navy and was assigned to OSS duty in the Mediterranean and Western European Theatres...