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...issue of patronage, he sees his actions as much more defensible than what goes on elsewhere in the University. He says that Father Berryman is a close friend, an intellectual companion and a man who shares many of his ideals and moral beliefs. Last year, when Berryman was a teaching assistant in Expository Writing and a resident tutor in Eliot House, Kiely tells friends, he felt that the positions had too low a standing for a man of Berryman's age. (Berryman, who is in his forties, is nearly ten years older than Kiely.) Kiely therefore decided to look...
...Kiely insists to friends that he would not have even tried to get these appointments for Berryman were he not totally convinced of his qualifications. This impression of Berryman, Kiely maintains, was in way influenced by their friendship...
Under the headline "Kiely Allegedly Used Influence To Get Positions for Berryman," Peter Shapiro has charged that Professor Kiely "used his influence as master and professor of English over the past two years to help a close friend gain administrative and faculty appointments." Shapiro has carefully selected details, some of which are true, to create an overall falsehood...
Shapiro damns Kiely because he has used "influence." In fact, the high standards of this University result precisely from the wise and ethical use of influence. In choosing Father Berryman as Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Adams House, Professor Kiely has exercised his rightful prerogative and, moreover, his moral and professional duty to select the best qualified person for the position. To call this duty undue use of influence is totally unreasonable...
...exercised it wisely? Shapiro suggests that he has not. He states that Berryman "came to the post with less experience at Harvard than any other senior tutor." He notes that Dean Whitlock discouraged Berryman's appointment. Though both statements may be true, neither is relevant to the wisdom of Kiely's having appointed Berryman. The real question is, has Father Berryman performed his job well...