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...petition has gained the support of at least two prominent professors, Boylston Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald...
...Among economists who do history he's one of the most outstanding," said John Womack Jr. '59, Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics. Womack added that instructors of Diaz-Alejandro's qualifications are a rare commodity among North American universities, since most experts in Latin American economic teach in South America
...Assuming he could come, they added rather pointedly, would Harvard award him an honorary degree? Well. Such awards, of course, are decided by a sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word of the White House feeler got around, some of the faculty became rather petulant. John Womack Jr., chairman of the history department, said, "I'd feel ashamed if they offered him a degree." George Wald, our Nobel laureate biologist who also seems to have become an expert in political science, mumbled something to the New York Times about a "disgraceful necessity" and intimated that he might...
...From my point of view, and from the point of view of the Faculty, the [GSAS review] is the most reassuring thing he's done," Womack added...
...years, there were other distractions such as the Core and the Harvard Campaign. It's overdue, and the time is ripe," said History Department Chairman John Womack...