Word: warrens
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...only Warren Center activity directly affecting undergraduates is a series of visiting historians who normally present public lectures and participate in seminars and informal discussions with history students. The guests to date have been Edmund S. Morgan from Yale; Willard Hurst, legal historian at the University of Wisconsin; George Kennan; Daniel Boorstin, of the University of Chicago; and Richard Hofstadter (who refused to speak with any undergraduates) of Columbia. H. C. Allen, Professor of American History at University College in London, will lecture March 19 on "America: Land of Comfort and Violence," while on a visit to compare the Warren...
These occasional affairs are incidental to the really important--but delayed and indirect--impact the Center hopes to have on Harvard. Any improvement in the higher levels of historical research, such as the Warren Center is now sponsoring, will inevitably filter down to affect undergraduate studies. Handlin points out, however, that the Center is now making a more deliberate effort to improve the quality of teaching in the field of American history--improving the working conditions of junior faculty members--to make Harvard attractive to young historians...
...from attracting bright young historians, the other two fellowships this year enabled two permanent members of the faculty -- Kenneth Lynn, professor of English, and Morton White, professor of Philosophy--to take leaves of absence. Their studies might have been difficult to finance without the Warren Center's support, however, because of the general unavailability of research funds for historical work approached through the humanities...
...Warren bequest established four endowed professorships loosely affiliated with the Center which, when filled, may broaden the range of instruction in American history. When Handlin was named to the Warren professorship of American history, Bernard Bailyn filled the Winthrop chair vacated by Handlin, in turn freeing history department funds for a possible additional professorship. However, even if another tenured position is added to the history department, a new professor might not be in the American field...
Only one of the three other Warren chairs had been filled--by the late Mark DeWolfe Howe, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law--and finding a legal historian of Howe's stature (there aren't many legal historians in the first place) will be difficult. The remaining chairs are even more specialized--on the history of religion in America (though the divinity school may be close to announcing an appointment) and on the history of American education...