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...Bailey is a somewhat myth-like figure for students in the Classics department. Known as much for his attire--suits and striped sneakers--as for his erudite texts, he is generally thought to be, as one student put it, "as inaccessible as he is scholarly--and he's very both...
...seems typical of what people say about Harvard faculty being indifferent--he doesn't seem to care much about his students," says Literature concentrator Francis Quinn '88 who took a Latin prose composition course from Bailey...
Andrew M. Rigby '87 couldn't decide whether or not to take Bailey's composition course freshman year--he was afraid it was too advanced. Rigby says that when he went to discuss his concern with Bailey, the scholar responded, "Well, we certainly don't need you." Rigby says he chose to take the class...
...there is a more positive side of the `Bailey myth'. One Classics concentrator said that in one class, a woman had a cold, and was sniffling. Bailey got up, left the classroom, and returned moments later with a box of Kleenex...
...course he is well known for his scholarship. "I'd heard of him before I even came to Harvard," Quinn says. Another student mentions that not only does Harvard require Classics students to read Cicero's letters, but they recommend the Shackleton Bailey translation of Cicero's leters...