Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Harvard members of the Com- mittee include George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy; Ralph F. Baierlcin '58, instructor in Physics; David F. Cavers, Fessenden Professor of Law; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science
...which we find ourselves in regard to mercy killing. The religious community will quite soon have to rethink its whole stand on this." It is already doing so. Some Protestant theologians believe that euthanasia is morally justified to spare the suffering of the hopelessly ill. Says Unitarian Jack Mendelsohn, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church: "There are occasions when mercy killing is justified because it is desired by the person who is ill." More cautiously, the Roman Catholic Church follows the principle, poetically and archaically articulated by the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough, that "Thou shalt not kill...
...Mendelsohn, assistant professor of History of Science, has been promoted to associate professor, the University announced yesterday. A specialist in the history of biology, Mendelsohn teaches History of Science III and three graduate seminars...
...Mendelsohn joined the Faculty as instructor in 1957 and was a Junior Fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows until 1940. He is a research associate in Science and Public Policy in the Graduate School of Public Administration...
Among the signers are Donald Fleming, professor of History; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; George Wald, professor of Biology; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and Everett Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science...