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Like the century in which he has for so long been so interested, Elliott Perkins has a passionate concern in the worth and potentialities of every individual, and he has devoted his own tremendous energies both to helping other and to making Harvard a better place for them to flourish. If one cannot call his impending retirement an immeasurable loss to the community, that is only because it is a loss whose effects can be measured--and only too precisely: the post-Perkins Harvard will be increasingly mechanized, soulless and Holyoke Centered institution.
After twenty-two years of service, the last of the red-hot masters is leaving. Harvard will be a much chillier place without him.
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