Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After receiving an honors BA from Princeton in 1958, he went to the London School of Economics to study political philosophy. While participating in anti-nuclear campaigns, he met Lord Russell. Schoenman feels it is "very flattering, but a bit fatuous," to be considered the eminence grise behind the 95-year-old philosopher. "What's it done with--telepathy?" he asks sarcastically...
...baseball player, Wood--a line drive slugger--was a consistent .300 hitter. As a senior, he went through more than 20 games with only two errors...
Cowles produced great players--many more stars than those listed above. But he was also devoted to Harvard. He turned down more lucrative offers elsewhere to go where athletics and sportsmanship went together. Cowles was responsible for a rule change which made squash less of a contact sport and more of a test of skill...
...American historians), "It's a constant struggle to keep instructional quality in American history at a high level," Handlin says. This demand is partly responsible for the loss of two promising assistant professors of American history last year--Stephen Thernstrom, now a professor at Brandeis, and Gordon Wood, who went to the University of Michigan...
...Center is trying to make teaching history at Harvard less strenuous in a number of ways including the awarding of Harvard Faculty Research Fellowships, grants which free faculty members from full-time work in the history department. However, only one of this year's three appointments went to a junior faculty member, Dr. Neil Harris. The grant allows Harris, who taught "The Impact of Technology on America" last spring, to spend only half his time teaching and the other half doing his own reading and research (on "crowds and the nature of safety" in the last half of the nineteenth...