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Twice previously, Galbraith, ADA vice-chairman since 1964, was asked to accept the chairmanship, but declined...
Galbraith reportedly agreed to accept the post at the unanimous request of the ADA nominating committee because of his deepening concern over the Vietnam war. Relations between ADA and the Administration worsened recently, after ADA vice-chairman Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 attacked the Administration's stand on Vietnam negotiations...
...into liberal politics; he stumped last summer for Thomas Boylston Adams, Massachusetts peace candidate for the U.S. Senate. For seven years, Holton edited Daedalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which grew under his direction into a widely praised and read journal. He is vice-chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education and guided the $4.5 million federal program for science teaching called Harvard Project Physics...
Holton ,as vice-chairman of the Gen Ed Committee and head of the sub-committee on science, is optimistic about the future of the program. "It will help ensure the excellence of Harvard College education as well as Harvard departmental education. If there is not balance and interaction between these two, a college atrophies. Harvard must keep providing the tools for an education as well as for a trade." He notes that increasing numbers of Faculty members have already been induced by the system's flexibility to offer new courses...
Thomas Coates, who was elected last week as vice-chairman, said that Councilor Thomas H.D. Mahoney's move to re- consider his election was "prompted by nothing but plain, flat bigotry." Mahoney, an M.I.T. history professor, angrily dismissed Coates' charge, declaring that it was a "nasty, little innuendo." On a revote, Coates won again as vice-chairman...