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...Departments are often also helped by restricted endowment funds—which are the responsibility of the department??s financial personnel to manage...
...Knowles’ first step was to install Wolff, who says the department was “dysfunctional,” as Acting Chair in 1992. But Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic Warren Goldfarb ’69 says that the department??s dire condition and FAS’ still-burgeoning budget deficit led Knowles to question Linguistics’ place in Harvard’s liberal arts curriculum...
...time, Wolff told The Crimson “It is not the function of the committee to look into departmental reorganization… We have tried that.” Knowles says he also sent a sternly worded letter to committee members, including both of the department??s professors, advising them of the gravity of the situation...
...announcement that a committee had been formed with the purpose of dissolving the department prompted tremendous opposition from both inside and outside Harvard. The department??s students formed the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Linguists Society, and Knowles received letters from linguists across the country. One concentrator, Joel L. Derfner ’95, met with Knowles that year to appeal the decision but says he found Knowles condescending and unresponsive...
...report, which Knowles said he released to provoke discussion of its recommendations, assailed the museum for focusing too much on public exhibitions at the expense of FAS’ needs and suggested cutting the department??s staff by two-thirds to address its $1 million deficit...