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One thing should be made clear from the start: in the general scheme of things at Harvard, Jean H. Slingerland, assistant director Of Expository Writing, is a distinctly minor figure. She is an English graduate student at work on a thesis, and before she resigned from Expos earlier this month...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Jean Slingerland vs. The Faculty Council | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

The way Slingerland--a nervous, theatrical woman--made her ungraceful exit was almost a direct product of her minor-league status at Harvard, because she made the tremendous mistake of assuming that things like resignations arouse the sympathy of the Harvard Faculty. They don't. So instead of helping the...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Jean Slingerland vs. The Faculty Council | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

Alan E. Heimert '49, chairman of the English Department, first approached Jean Slingerland about working in the Expos office in December 1972. She was working on her thesis at the time, and planning to teach a House course in English. "Mr. Heimert made me a proposition," Slingerland said. "I would...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Jean Slingerland vs. The Faculty Council | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

Slingerland accepted Heimert's offer in January, and then last spring found out that Expos had a new director--Gwynne B. Evans, professor of English--and a new guiding force, the Standing Committee on Expository Writing, a four-professor board.

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Jean Slingerland vs. The Faculty Council | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

Although the Cardinals give the impression of being a fourth-place team, they do have an upward mobility that neither the Expos nor the Pirates can claim. Although their infield features two names that will be on everybody's trivia quiz--third baseman Kenny Reitz and shortstop Mike Tyson--they...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme dela Cramer | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

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