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...letter “Misjudging Doris Kearns Goodwin?? (March 18), Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe says in reference to Overseer Goodwin??s plagiarism: “I do not minimize that error; it was one no scholar should make, and one Doris Kearns Goodwin would be the first to admit she should not have made.” I don’t agree that Goodwin would be “the first” to admit what Tribe calls her “error,” something most recognize as plagiarism...
...Given Goodwin??s silence from 1988 until recently, how can Tribe say that she would “be the first to admit” her “error”? The facts prove otherwise...
...Goodwin??s fellow Overseer Richard H. Jenrette dismissed her plagiarism as “small potatoes.” He is wrong. The Crimson rightly recognizes that Goodwin??s conduct concerns what Harvard must always be about: veritas. And that’s no small potatoes...
...feel compelled to comment on your editorial based on the tenet of fairness which should be the foundation for any comments regarding the reputation of someone whose career has been untarnished until now. While Goodwin??s political opinions fall left of my own, I curiously find myself questioning your editorial which negates the painstaking efforts she has made in trying to rectify her inadvertent omissions in the citations of passages which were not her own, despite the fact that the source was cited elsewhere in the same book. A more careful review of the body of her work...
Even though the plagiarism was apparently unintentional, Goodwin??s gross negligence—losing primary works, not checking citations before publication—constitutes the lack of respect and appreciation of others’ work that cannot be condoned by anyone who purports to be a model for the Harvard community...