Bloch, White Get Professor Posts, Provost Reveals

Associate Professor Herman Bloch and Associate Professor Morgan G. White will become full professors on July 1, Provost Paul H. Buck announced yesterday.

Bloch was born in Berlin, and studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Rome. He continued his studies at Harvard and then at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. He was appointed instructor of Greek and Latin here in 1941, assistant professor in 1946, and associate professor in 1947.

His major interest has been investigating Classical culture, and its influence in the Middle Ages. He has studied the role of the Benedictine monasteries in preserving the Classical heritage, and was responsible for re-discovering the "Atina papers" of a twelfth century librarian at Monte Cassino.

American Intellectual History

White is an authority on the development of ideas in America, and is the author of "Social Thought in America." He graduated from the City College of New York in 1936, and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia. After teaching at C.C.N.Y., Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, he came to Harvard as assistant profesor of philosophy. In 1949, he was advanced to associate professor.

Both professors have ben invited to spend the academic year 1953-54 at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.