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The infamous U.S. policy went from being celebrated in Latin America to despised. Today, its chief legacy is confusion.

Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting.

Annual Lectures Each year, the Associates host a lecture in the Historical Library. Past speakers have included Nobel Laureates, writers, professors and Surgeons General who have lectured on a wide variety of topics relating to medicine.

<p>&quot;Dr. Smith was a Yale institution. He arrived on campus as a freshman in 1950, received his doctorate from the university in 1961, and, aside from a short teaching stint at Duke, never left.&quot;</p>

Gaddis Smith, a Yale historian who taught generations of policymakers and politicians the finer points of U.S. foreign policy and who, during the 1970s and ’80s, helped the university navigate between its desire to modernize and the powerful alumni who opposed such change, died Dec. 2 at his home in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 89.