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White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan '40, meanwhile, told ABC-TV's "This Week with David Brinkley" that Syria's role in obtaining Jacobsen's release was "minimal" and that France had no part...
...recent Harvard college graduate who concentrated in American History, I know I speak for many of my classmates and myself in remembering the profound impact Professor Brinkley made on us students. His lectures were thought-provoking, his assigned readings challenging...
Professor Brinkley offered us more than "high standards of scholarship," as a well known Harvard history professor put it recently. I remember the difficult time I had with my general exam in American History in March of my senior year. Several days after I had taken the exam, Professor Brinkley sent a note to me at Winthrop House in which he said that he would like me to call his office soon and that we should sit down together so he could help me understand how I could improve my work. I remember how reassured I felt that a Harvard...
Good character seems to be an important element to seek in a tenured professor. Professor Brinkley's wonderful scholarship, his keen mind and sense of humor will be missed by many of us students who took his courses, but the decency, compassion, and good character he brought to the History Department and which he'll take with him will leave Robinson Hall with a certain sense of emptiness...
...saddened and angered to see that a scholar of Alan Brinkley's standing was denied tenure at Harvard. Harvard still is Harvard, isn't it? I'm sure Professor Brinkley's mistake was being spotted in the company of admitted undergraduates...