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Galbraith, Sert Elected to National Institute

John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, have been elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an organization modeled on the European academies, which honors outstanding achievement in music, literature, and art.

Galbraith, who was elected to the Department of Literature, was called "a distinguished economist and social historian." Sert, elected to the Department of Art, was cited for "his major contribution to the development of modern architecture."

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