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Dual Celebration: Zellig Harris and House of Our Own

A public lecture in honor of Dr. Zellig Harris, the late Benjamin Franklin Emeritus Professor of Linguistics,will be held Tuesday, November 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Meyerson B-1. Dr. Noam Chomsky of MIT-a Penn alumnus and former student of Dr. Harris-will speak at the event, which marks the posthumous publication of Dr. Harris' The Transformation of Capitalist Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

The evening's Organizing Committee-Professors Murray Eden of the NIH; William Evan, Edward Herman, and Andrew Lamas of Penn; and Seymour Melman of Columbia--will also honor Deborah Sanford and Greg Schirm of the House of Our Own for the bookstore's 25 years' service to the region as a "progressive, independent bookstore."

Return to:Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 1997, Volume 44, No. 12