Word: professors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, declared he prefers John F. Kennedy '40 for President, in a poll of 54 men and women published by Esquire this week. Only one of six other Harvard professors stating their Presidential choices agreed with Galbraith...
...accompanying article, "The New Mood in Politics," Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, repeated his cyclical theory of politics. According to Schlesinger, the new decade will be "one of the exciting and creative epochs in our history." "The politics of the Fifties were.... the politics of fatigue," he wrote, adding, "The people wanted any excuse to forget public affairs...
Both Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, were among the 16 persons who chose Adlai Stevenson as the ideal President. It was the largest backing for one person...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
Even before his election as president, Lowell, professor of Government, took no pains to hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that by the time of Eliot's resignation, Lowell had made it entirely clear that he disapproved of the College's present condition...