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Faith In Potential Of Youth

Mr. Kett is from New York
City. He received a B.A. from
Holy Cross in New York, his
M.A. and PhD. from Harvard.
Taking a Fulbright Scholarship
to study in London, he was
working at the time on his
thesis, a study of American
medical history before 1860,
which he later published.

He taught at Harvard from
1964 to 1966, coming to the
University in 1969. He likes this
quiet university town.