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President Neil L. Rudenstine named Robert C. Merton, the Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, as the first John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Cornel West '74, famed author and philosopher, will hold the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship. And William Julius Wilson, a theorist on urban problem who has served as an unofficial adviser to President Clinton, was named Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
Older endowed professorships which have become difficult to fill over the years include the Hollis Chair of Mathematick and Natural Philosophy and the Fisher Professorship of Natural History, charged with studying "animal, mineral and vegetable" in the 1700s...
...first public appearance at Harvard since her acceptance of a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, Lani Guinier '71 talked about how to reconnect to the civil rights movement and create a new vision of social justice in a speech yesterday afternoon at the ARCO Forum...
...began the process of filling the professorship two years ago. In early February, President Neil L. Rudenstine reviewed the Myers case...
Additionally, the preference of some committee members for Goldhagen--and the rumored endorsement by the donors-suggests that a viable candidate could have been found, especially if the committee's proposal to make the position a visiting professorship for three years was accepted by Dean Knowles and the donors. Harvard has hurt itself in failing to pursue the professorship adequately with a board of professors who agreed on the need for the position. By cutting short the search and reallocating the money, Harvard has also hindered the cause of Holocaust studies at what may be its most vital moment...