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After the dismissal of Carroll, David H. Horne became acting director, a post he held until March 27 when he resigned to become director of the University Press of New England. Since then the Press's Directorship has been held by Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History. At present a five-man search committee is looking for a successor to replace Carroll as permanent director. The committee, chaired by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, includes Donald L. Fanger, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law; Bertrand Fox, Shiff Professor of Investment Banking...
...HISTORY Department had its full share of unpleasantness in Fall, 1969, when it debated the appointment of Fritz Stern, a German history professor at Columbia. David S. Landes, professor of History and Stern's good friend, supported the appointment enthusiastically. Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, led the opposing forces. As usual, the sides split roughly along the American and European divisional lines of the Department...
Stern's supporters were bitter. They knew that Handlin had gone to the top to voice his objections. They also suspected that Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and former dean of the Faculty, was less than enthusiastic about the prospect of a new man encroaching on his territory of modern German history. They realized that if Ford had wanted the appointment, he was close enough to Pusey to guarantee its approval...
...Stern blackballed? In such cases, the academic and political reasons tend to blur together. On the one hand, Stern writes slowly and reputedly mistreats graduate students. On the other hand, his record in the Columbia strike was mushy left, which was anathema to conservatives like Handlin...
Higonnet had even more going for him. His conservative politics pleased Handlin and the other Americanists. His ignorance of Germany satisfied Ford. The departmental chores he had performed softened up everybody. And the coup de grace: his father, a French inventor, had helped Stern's chief backer, David Landes, gain admittance to a number of important French archives. Higonnet was in the right place at the right time. The Department united behind him, and the President confirmed the appointment...