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Department members said Adams UniversityProfessor Bernard Bailyn, Loeb UniversityProfessor Emeritus Oscar Handlin and TrumbullProfessor of American History Donald Flemingobjected to promoting Brinkley. The three areproponents of what Huggins called "the Harvardstyle of American history," an approach that seesthe field as sprawling and eschews specialization...
...face of the opposition, Spence halted Brinkley's review, the sources said. "If Handlin and Fleming turn their thumbs down on someone, you can forget it; he's not going through," said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard Frye, a History Department member...
Several scholars here and elsewhere saidHarvard's commitment to its traditional standardsthreatens to weaken the History Department asscholars in the image of Handlin and Schlesingerbecome more scarce...
Said Frye: "Fleming and Handlin found the worktoo journalistic...
Several predicted, however, that the HistoryDepartment would find it difficult to appointyounger, more specialized Americanists topermanent posts. They said the Brinkley decisionproves the views of Fleming and Handlin are tooweighty for opponents to overcome...