Word: researcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marc Edo Tralbaut. 350 pages. Viking. $40. The tortured impressionist painter is so well known that to present him to the public again, one critic has observed, would be like presenting Christ to Christians. Nevertheless this is a splendid job. Calling upon more than 50 years of devoted research, the Belgian art scholar Marc Edo Tralbaut has put together the most satisfying study of Van Gogh's life and works...
...Faculty subcommittee chaired by Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, voted, 5-3, in favor of Harvard's allying itself institutionally with the Project, which uses computers at Harvard and M.I.T. for social and behavioral science research. The same recommendation was approved. 11-8, by the Committee on Research Policy...
...Faculty cannot and does not want to prevent individual Harvard professors and graduate students from accepting Cambridge Project funds. Harvard traditionally allows its scholars to accept any outside research funding they can get, provided certain conditions-such as no classified research-are met. The Cambridge Project meets those conditions...
...crucial legal issue involves Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill. That section forbids the Defense Department, beginning next fiscal year, to fund any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function." Thus, future Defense funding of the Cambridge Project-which involves basic rather than applied research-would seem to be illegal...
...Defense Department may very well try to thwart the intent of this law-i.e., limiting the military's influence in American society-by claiming that even basic research is directly related to "a specific military function." John Womack Jr. 59, assistant professor of History and a member of the anti-Project minority on the Brooks subcommittee, said Wednesday that Harvard involvement in the Project "may amount to collusion" with the Defense Department in circumventing Section...