He went from the society to a professorship in Harvard's philosophy department, where he ultimately became Edgar Pierce professor.
Quine professed to be bored by even the best lectures he attended during his days as a student. But he spent nearly four decades teaching, until his retirement in 1978.
His students included Tom A. Lehrer '47, the satirical songwriter, as well as Theodore J. Kaczynski '62, later known as the Unabomber.
During the turmoil of 1969, Quine was a conservative voice on the Faculty.
He regarded the undergraduate protests of the time--against the war in Vietnam, the presence of ROTC on campus and Harvard's lack of an Afro-American Studies
Program--with disdain.
"President Pusey was compelled to call in the police after many hours of waiting and warning," he wrote in his autobiography of the police raid on
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