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Harvard today awarded honorary doctorates to two women and five men, including MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner, novelist Ralph Ellison, world renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and opera star Beverly Sills...
...Wiesner became president of MIT in March 1971--two months after the appointment of President Bok--and, like Bok, was considered to be part of a swing by academic institutions toward younger, more aggressive leadership. MIT's 13th president, he previously served as its provost and dean of the MIT School of Science...
...outspoken critic of the antiballistic missile system, Wiesner served as national science adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was instrumental in obtaining Senate passage of the 1963 treaty banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere, oceans and outer space...
President Bok awarded Wiesner a Doctor of Laws degree. The citation read: "In education a scientist gifted and humane, in the nation's service a counsellor wise and moderate, in Cambridge our warm friend and good neighbor...
Jerome B. Wiesner, president of MIT, a Doctor of Laws...