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Portrait photograph of Richard M. Douglas.

Original caption 1: "Richard M. Douglas will become professor and head of the Department of Humanities at M.I.T. in February."

Original caption 2: "At M.I.T. students now may take a "double-major" program in humanities and science or engineering. As Head of the Department of Humanities, Professor Douglas has responsibility for this program. He formerly taught at Amherst. His scholarly interests are in European History, the Renaissance, and the Reformation - as this excerpt from his Alumni Seminar remarks suggests." Used in: Technology Review, November 1964 p. 25.