Word: bailyn
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...which a year or two back donned a toga, added a lounge, raised the prices, and drove the coffee-dawdling academics out of the building. Veteran junior faculty, though, still pine for those good old days when you could drop into University Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. and find Bailyn in one corner dazzling his listeners or Banfield in another corner infuriating his. Well, that's what they remember. That kind of intellectual give-and-take requires big round tables and a remarkably patient management, two phenomena fast disappearing from the Harvard Square economy...
When the Faculty split into caucuses two years ago, Bailyn was fortunate enough to be on a leave of absence and carries no scars from the hectic '68-'69 academic year. Still there is little doubt among anyone that he is strongly tied to the Faculty conservatives...
...will dispute that Bailyn is "a scholar's scholar" in the Harvard History Department, but even less will agree on what that means. After getting his Ph. D. here in 1953, Bailyn moved from assistant to associate to full professor in 1961 and became Winthrop Professor of History...
Unlike many of his social science colleagues, Bailyn is not tainted with a long history of collaboration in foreign policy. He is a pure academic; but considered both an academic and political conservative. His undergraduate course is one of the most rigorous in the University and his graduate students have simple, often exaggerated, stories of his rigidity...
Other grad student comments vary greatly, but almost all recognize Bailyn's essential academic decency-cloaked under a few layers of sharp, supra-rational logic. "He's very diplomatic," according to one department cliche, "on his own terms." According to another. "Bailyn's the kind of man who plays his cards inside his chest...