Word: holton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty debates on the merger?" Gerald Holton, Malinckrodt Professor of Physics and Faculty member during the Faculty merger discussions, sounded bewildered, but amused. "They are a small part of my autobiography," he confessed...
Well, at least he remembers them. If Harvard Faculty ever composes its memoirs, more than likely the chapter on the 1969 and '70 merger debates will not make the final edition. Most of Holton's colleagues do not recall a debate ever taking place and the few who do, have only the vaguest notion what anyone said. Even John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the Faculty and often dubbed 'Harvard's unofficial historian,' knows he went to the meetings concerning the merger, but confesses uncomfortably, "I don't remember anything." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, was also around...
Over the years, Cavileer has been assisted in the press box by a band of alumni devoted to the cause of Harvard football. His right-hand man for many years was Hamilton Holton "Holty" Wood, who was captain of the J.V. football team in 1939. Wood's maternal grandfather was one of the thirteen men who got together and donated the Yale Bowl. Wood's brother operated the Stadium's scoreboard and his daughter Ceelie Wood now types out the play-by-play charts for members of the press...
...computer and the instructions for doing the job in the same memory and using the same code. It was a key innovation in computer theory, for it meant that the machine could cope with instructions just as if they were data. As Texas Instruments' William C. Holton explains, "A program can therefore alter another program or even itself...
Members of the Harvard Faculty participating in the conference include Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Everett T. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of the History of Science...