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...known for everything—a great teacher, scholar and administrator,” says Richard Walter, chair of the history department at Washington University when Kirby was hired in the late 1970s. “Everyone at Washington University has the fondest recollections and highest opinion of Bill,” he says...
...Harvard community and the world of science have lost a brilliant scholar whose research helped redefine our notion of who we are and where we came from. He was also a gifted teacher who brought important scientific ideas vividly to life for his students and for the wider public,” Summers said. “We will miss him greatly, and we will continue to learn from his work for generations to come...
...There’s a strong concern to maintain the tradition, the Ivy League tradition of scholar-athletes and to agree together to maintain academic standards—not to sacrifice academic standards to the objectives of athletic recruitment,” Summers says...
...time of great sorrow, ours remains one of the great institutions of the world, standing in defense of the freedom of speech and debate that is fundamental to an academic community. This exchange of ideas has become vital to me as a journalist, an author and a scholar. This brand of intellectual discourse and constant questioning is both so Harvard and so American. We cannot allow it to be taken away from us—that, truly, would be the triumph of evil...
...help of the G.I. Bill. By the time he retired from the Naval Reserve, he had earned a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate—all from Tufts University—and had studies at the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar...