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Unlike the memory of battles with Greeks that the delegation to Dean Epps brought to mind, the current issue of Outlook reminds of the exciting intellectual activity among a group of Harvard Black students during my early teaching days in the 1960s. A group of Black students (among them Ayee Queh Armah, now a novelist; Lee Daniels, now a New York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors...
...Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
...beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Thanks, F. Scott. Pass me another...
...Assistant Professor of English and American Literature Allen H. Reddick, the current head tutor in the English Department, says, "University service has no bearing whatsoever on whether one gets tenure or not. It doesn't work in your favor at all, but it necessarily takes time away from your scholarship...
Senior faculty members agree with Peterson's assessment of the tenure system, but many add that the current system is designed to maintain high academic standards and should not be changed to accomodate what many call the "good citizenship" activities of junior faculty...