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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This rather humble project has grown, over a 12-year period, to number a staff of nearly 50 people, to publish a series of books now totaling 35 and to occupy a position of unquestioned world-wide eminence in the Russian field. Scholars come from all over the world to use Harvard's excellent collection of Soviet documents and publications and to consult with the personnel of the Center...
...only exception to this rule against team projects was the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a large undertaking leading to three books so far--How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes, by Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles and Clyde Kluckhohn, the Berliner volume, and Mark G. Field's Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia--and numerous articles. In this study, carried on in co-operation with the United States Air Force, a team of twenty interviewers spent nearly a year in Munich collecting material from former Soviet citizens who had fled the U.S.S.R. The results...
...with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip unaccountably replaced him with the Duke of Medina Sidonia who objected miserably that...
...research project will be carried out by a University of Minnesota staff under Henderson's direction. It is jointly financed by the Ford Foundation and the Upper Mid-West Research and Development Council, a group of businessmen concerned with the serious lag in their area's economy...
...Program is the first such field research project to limit participation to undergraduates and will include students from Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell. The purpose of the project is to introduce college students to a foreign culture under the guidance of professional anthropologists. Regular academic course credit will be granted...