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...Harvard-run website featuring videos of lectures by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 includes large chunks of text that appear to have been copied word-for-word from widely-accessible law review and encyclopedia articles. But neither Gross nor the other lecturer featured on the site, Higgins Professor of Mathematics Joseph D. Harris, played any role in creating the webpage, which was designed in 2001 to make the two professors’ popular Core course, Quantitative Reasoning 28: “The Magic of Numbers,” available to alumni...
...Crimson received an anonymous, typewritten letter Thursday alleging that Gross and Harris were responsible for the lack of attributions on the website...
...wish to review the enclosed that was taken from the website of Prof. Harris and Dean Gross on their book, The Magic of Numbers,” the letter said. “What may be interesting is the identical wording from other publications,” it continued...
...letter’s allegations against Gross and Harris proved to be spurious. The copied passages do not appear in the two professors’ 2003 textbook, nor do they appear on the textbook’s official companion website, maintained by publisher Prentice Hall...
...Gross, reached via e-mail in Israel, where he is traveling, wrote Saturday morning that he did not know who composed—or copied—the text on the Harvard At Home site...